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Officials at Yellowstone National Park have started rounding up bison, with a view towards possibly slaughtering them in the next few days, in order to cull the herd and prevent the spread of disease, ABC News reports.
Every year, visitors to the expansive national park take in the sight of bison, thousands of whom call the park home. In fact, so many of the bovids live in the park that, for now, there might actually be too many, and authorities want to cull the herd.
Specifically, about 4,900 bison are known or believed to live in the park, a number that, if it gets too high, leads to what’s known as the “winter migration,” where the animals descend from the higher elevations of the park to lower elevations, in search of food.