National Geographic Kids USA - June, July 2017

BISON

BALTIMORE,

MARYLAND

OWL

SOUTHAMPTON,

ENGLAND

DOG

RICHLAND,

WASHINGTON

AP / WIDE WORLD (BISON, 1); STEVE RUARK / ASSOCIATED PRESS (BISON, 2); ASSOCIATED

PRESS (BISON, 3); CHRIS BALCOMBE / REX USA (OWLS); CHASE JARVIS (FAITH)

Baltimore,

Maryland

Police may know

how to arrest

criminals, but

these officers were

scratching their heads when they had to capture some odd fugi-

tives: a herd of bison! Nine woolly animals escaped from a farm

early one morning and invaded a nearby neighborhood. Police

arrived to find the massive mammals shuffling across front lawns

as startled homeowners looked on. Linking hands to form

a human chain, the officers herded the animals onto an empty

tennis court. Some bison even started leaping over the net!

“For such big animals, they moved pretty gracefully,” Officer

Shawn Vinson says. Finally, police officers and local farmhands

guided the bison into an animal trailer using deck chairs and

mesh fencing. Why did they roam in the first place? “One of them

probably got out,” Vinson says. “And the rest just followed!”

WHO

WANTS

TO PLAY

DOUBLES?

“We are

sobored.”

1

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“Hey, guys!

Same place

next week!”

3

“Yahoo!!!!”

2

FOLLOWING

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