Yellowstone visitors hope to catch a glimpse of rare white buffalo calf
Standing at the edge of a bluff overlooking the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park, TJ Ammond stared through binoculars at hundreds of buffalo dotting the verdant valley below.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Standing at the edge of a bluff overlooking the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park, TJ Ammond stared through binoculars at hundreds of buffalo dotting the verdant valley below.
Tan-colored calves frolicked near their mothers while hulking bulls wallowed in mud.
As his wife and young children clustered behind him, Ammond panned the vast herd and cried out: “I see a white one!”
“Or no — that’s a pronghorn,” he soon corrected. “It’s white and it’s small.”
TJ Ammond is seen looking for buffalo, also known as bison, in Yellowstone National Park, near Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo., on Thursday.Matthew Brown / APGrizzly bears and wolves are usually the star attractions for wildlife watchers in Yellowstone but this spring, a tiny and exceedingly rare white buffalo calf has stolen the show.
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