While photographing elk at sunrise in the Cataloochee Valley of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a curious young bull approaches a photographer and sniffs his camera. The photographer hunkers down on the road and waits while the elk gently nudges him.

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This video comes from the Utah Division of Wildlife resources and was shot along the sage brush flats in the Parker Mountain area.

A group of volunteers and wildlife officials captured 236 pronghorn for relocation using a helicopter and the net system explained in the clip. The 236 animals is a small portion of the 2,150 pronghorn estimated on the unit — the management objective for the unit is 1,500, according to Utah Public Radio. The captured pronghorn will be relocated in different states to supplement struggling herds or start new ones.

Of course, the most spectacular part of this conservation effort is the helicopter pilots who buzz the prairie, herding speed goats.

“Pronghorn can run faster than 60 miles per hour,” Teresa Griffin, regional wildlife manager for the DWR told UPR.org. “So, herding them can be very tricky. These pilots have to be the best in the business just to keep up with them.”

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Migration corridors are important for game species all over the world, especially for animals out West like the mule deer. This time-lapse video created by photographers Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas documents the sheer scale of one such phenomenon.

The British duo’s film shows migrating wildebeest crossing the Mara River while moving south into Tanzania from Kenya. Although this event took place over five days, the filmmakers were able to compact it into an unbelievable one-minute video thanks to the magic of time-lapse photography.

The event was documented on the Serengeti, which consists of more than 15,000 square miles and is home to an estimated 1.5 million wildebeest.

For more on this film and the filmmakers, click here.

Want more migration videos? Check out this awesome footage of the longest mule deer migration ever recorded.

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Tawny Tersmette was planning on a hike, but didn’t bargain on encountering these two bull moose fighting the good fight.

Tersmette was driving in Alberta’s Peter Lougheed Provincial Park toward her intended trailhead on Saturday when she encountered the rumble. She told CBC, “We were driving down the highway and rounded the corner to see the moose tumble down the right side of the road. The fight lasted over 20 minutes. The one with the larger antlers won the battle.”

Nothing like a lively fight to get hunters everywhere itching for the rut in their region.

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A Minnesota hunter is lucky to be alive after he was mauled by a 525-pound black bear on Saturday morning.

Craig Lindstrom, of Wyoming, Minn., was bear hunting with several friends in the swamps near Duxbury, Minn., when the attack occurred. The hunt actually took place on the day before when someone in Lindstrom’s party shot the bear with an arrow.

The group initially planned to trail the bear early the next morning, but they thought warm temperatures might spoil the meat. So Lindstrom and two of his buddies began trailing it it in the dark, around 11:30 p.m. They found the bear on the ground about a half hour later, but the bear focused on the group and charged.

“And that’s when they yelled ‘It’s big and it’s coming your way.’ All of the sudden I heard him [Brandon Johnson] screaming—felt like 10 minutes, but was probably two minutes—literally screaming, screaming and you knew he was being mauled,” Lindstrom told KARE 11.

Lindstrom said he began to pray aloud but soon realized that his friend was not dead yet. Rather he was fighting off the bear with a knife.

“He made that thing die because he stabbed it about 20 times while it was chewing on his arm. He kept stabbing it and stabbing it and stabbing it and it was pounding on him, a quarter of a ton—a 525 pound bear pounding on him,” said Lindstrom. “And I’m telling you, he walked out. He walked out.”

Johnson most likely survived thanks to Lindstrom, a Chicago City firefighter, who immediately administered first aid.

“I had two tourniquets on both of his arms. I have a strap, I strapped it around his arms to hold his arms, I put his hands in his pockets and we had a belt and we led him with the belt,” Lindstrom detailed. “I was very emotional all day because I’ve never been a part of anything like this. I cut people out of cars. I’ve hauled people out of bad car accidents on Highway 8. This is just the worst it was. But at the same time, the best there was – because of him.”

It took the party more than three hours to make it out of the woods and to a place where they could call 911 at the Pine County Sheriff’s Office.

“His will to keep going forward, I thought he was dead 10 to 15 times. He would fall down and he told us about telling his parents, his fiancée, his kids—tell them I love them,” said Lindstrom.

Johnson was flown to North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale where he underwent surgery for two broken arms and a dislocated wrist, among other injuries, according to the Star Tribune. He is expected to recover.

The bear, which died about 50 yards from the mauling, was retrieved. “We are going to mount that thing,” said Lindstrom. “So this will be another story. It just happens to be the biggest one.”

This is a more heartening outcome than that of another recent bear attack in New Jersey, which resulted in the death of a hiker.

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