The massive Yellowstone National Park bull bison that tossed a grandfather eight feet into the air — leaving him with multiple broken bones — will not be euthanized, according to park officials.
Yellowstone National Park officals told TMZ “no management action” will be taken against the wild animal — meaning the bison will not be culled following the now-viral Friday night attack on 65-year-old Carl Isom-McDaniel.
McDaniel was visiting the Bridge Bay Campground near Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming with his 13-year-old grandson when the beast charged at the grandfather.
McDaniel was flung approximately eight feet into the air by the large bison bull and the heart-pounding moment was caught on camera by a photographer also visiting the national park.
The retiree and community leader from Kendall, Wash., ended up with a broken femur — the strongest bone in the human body — in four places near his hip and had to undergo surgery on Sunday.
However, the tourist was already up and standing the day after he went under the knife, he told CNN.
“Thank you everyone I am OK,” McDaniel wrote on his Facebook account following surgery late Sunday alongside a thumbs-up emoji.
The grandfather also praised the large beast — which can weigh up to 2,200 pounds and stand up to six-feet tall — for not killing him during the wild attack.
“When I was on the ground immobile, unable to move, he was right on top of me,” McDaniel told the outlet.
“He could have stomped on me, he could have gored me, he could have done almost anything to take my life, and he did not do so.”
Mike MacLeod, the professional photographer who captured the now-insanely viral video, said McDaniel was “in good spirits” after the attack once he was safe — but was mostly worried that people would think he upset or provoked the wild animal.
“He was in a lot of pain, but was conscious and joking the whole time,” the shutterbug from Montana told Cowboy State Daily.
“He was really worried and wanted to see the video to make sure that it wasn’t his fault.”
“It’s not his fault. You can tell from the very beginning. That was a really, really angry bison,” MacLeod added.
According to the photographer, neither McDaniel nor his grandson did anything to provoke the bison and were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when the wild attack happened.
The Post reached out to the Yellowstone National Park Service but did not immediately hear back.
