Outdoors blog

Wed., Sept. 5, 2012

Video: When people mix with elk in the rut…

WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS -- This BBC film clip offers a glimpse of a town and tourists in the midst of the annual autumn mating season for elk.

The footage is as funny as it is sad to see people so nonchalant and clueless about walking past hormone-charged 800-pound animals with antlers.

Posted Sept. 5, 2012, 7:45 a.m.

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