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A 65-year-old man was thrown eight feet into the air by a charging bison while touring Yellowstone National Park with his grandson Friday. <\/p>\n

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A video captured by professional photographer Mike MacLeod shows Carl Isom-McDaniel, the injured tourist, and his grandson taking pictures of the animal lying next to the Bridge Bay Campground near Yellowstone Lake. Suddenly, the bison jumped to its feet and charged at McDaniel and his grandson. Using its horns, the bison threw McDaniel into the air.<\/p>\n

McDaniel landed several feet away and suffered multiple broken bones. He was immediately aided by nearby witnesses and emergency medical personnel who responded to the scene and transported McDaniel to a nearby hospital, according to park authorities.<\/p>\n

What the video doesn\u2019t show, MacLeod said in a phone call Monday, is how McDaniel saved his grandson\u2019s life. <\/p>\n

In the moments following the attack, the first thing on McDaniel\u2019s find wasn\u2019t his aching injuries \u2014 it was his grandson. <\/p>\n

A breakdown of the \u2018unlucky\u2019 day\u2019s events<\/h3>\n

Minutes before entering the Bridge Bay Campground, the bison charged at a group of young boys, MacLeod told the Deseret News. <\/p>\n

When the bison arrived to the Bridge Bay Campground, there were several people near it, some much closer than McDaniel and his grandson standing a \u201ca good ways away.\u201d But the bison chose McDaniel and his grandson as its target. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just unlucky,\u201d MacLeod said. <\/p>\n

Upon spotting the pair, the bison charged. The video shows McDaniel running through trees until the bison caught up with him and flipped him in the air. <\/p>\n

After charging at McDaniel, the bison was still \u201cextremely agitated\u201d and \u201clooking for something else to hit,\u201d Macleod said. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI was really worried that finding nothing else, he was gonna go back to Carl and either gore him or stomp him or something worse,\u201d MacLeod said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo at that point I just made myself a very loud,\u201d he continued. \u201cI ran right toward it, jumping in the air, screaming, asking other campers to help me get this bison off, and a whole bunch of people did all at once.\u201d <\/p>\n

Eventually the bison ran away, MacLeod said. <\/p>\n

McDaniel saved his grandson\u2019s life by taking the attack, MacLeod says<\/h3>\n

MacLeod said that when he approached McDaniel after the incident, \u201cthe first thing that he wanted to know from he was is his grandson OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

MacLeod later found out that when the bison began to charge, McDaniel had immediately told his grandson to go hide in the trees. McDaniel then ran to lead the bison away from his grandson. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo. 1, his grandson was his responsibility,\u201d MacLeod said. <\/p>\n

McDaniel is not the first victim of Yellowstone bison this year<\/h3>\n

This is not the first bison attack in Yellowstone this year. A 12-year-old was injured in an attack just over two weeks ago on June 26. <\/p>\n

\u201cBison have injured more people in Yellowstone than any other animal,\u201d the National Park Service said in a release. \u201cThey are unpredictable, can run three times faster than humans and will defend their space when threatened.\u201d <\/p>\n

Officials warn visitors to stay at least 25 feet away from bison and run if a bison starts to charge. <\/p>\n

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