One of the bison that call FortWhyte Alive home has gotten a brief taste of freedom. Buffalo flees FortWhyte Alive 0:03"That neighbour and a staff went out and basically the bison turned around and walked right back into the pasture and we closed and locked the gate behind them again. Wilson said FortWhyte Alive has roughly 33 bison at living on pasture land at the centre. Photos and videos of the loose bison — dubbed Freddy by locals — often pop up on social media and his exploits spawned shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Run Freddy Run." "It wanted to explore for a few minutes and realized that this isn't where I want to be and turned around and walked right back in."

Source: CBC News April 20, 2019 02:03 UTC