A 47-year-old man was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park, according to park rangers, marking the first reported bison-related injury this year.

A Yellowstone National park visitor from Florida was gored by a bison — the first such violent encounter of 2025 — just weeks into the busy summer season. Park officials repeated a frequent warning: Don’t get too close to wildlife.

A tourist from Florida was gored by a bison at Yellowstone National Park, officials said. The incident happened at about 3:15 p.m. May 4 in the Lake Village area, the National Park Service said in a May 7 news release. The 47-year-old man from Cape Coral got too close to the wild animal, and it attacked him, officials said.