By Alexander Boyle
Could rumblings of Yellowstone cause animals to flee from the caldera?
Yellowstone elk in their thousands leave the supervolcano each year to find higher grounds around the Yellowstone National Park. The annual mass migration gives the wild Yellowstone residents a chance to feast on fresh grass and calve for the Spring. However, scientists have discovered these centuries-old migration patterns are changing in response to environmental cues. According to researchers at the University of California, Berkley, tens of thousands of animals are now moving out of Yellowstone differently.
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William Henry Jackson, Great Falls of the Yellowstone near view. Yellowstone National Park, 1871
Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1872, Department of the Interior, loaned to the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
William Henry Jackson, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone, 1871
Thomas Moran, Big Springs Yellowstone, 1872, photo courtesy Sothebys
William Henry Jackson, Mary's Bay, Yellowstone Lake, 1871
Beneath this lake lies the largest supervolcano of North America
Albert Bierstadt, Last of the Buffalo, 1889, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Past images of imagination showing near extinction event. Real culprit was much more mundane, barbed wire and railroad tracks cornered massive herds into overgrazing small sections of prairie, then starvation.
Buffalo grazing near Bozeman, Montana, photo credit, Steve Zabel, Montana Trails Gallery - image taken about an hour ago
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First published 17/6/2019
