See the Animals in Yellowstone Park!
Click the links above for more information about animals commonly found throughout Yellowstone National Park.
FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY...
Please do not approach or feed the wildlife.
National Park Service Guidelines and Regulations require you to keep safe
distances while observing park wildlife and for all visitors to stay within
the designated areas. Yellowstone National Park is not responcible for accidents
or acts of nature. Please use extreme caution while visiting these beautiful,
yet untamed, wild habitats.
Yellowstone National Park has an abundance
of wildlife attractions for visitors to see. This area serves as a home
to many species of native and migrant animals. Long ago set aside to serve
as a national tourist attraction, the park also became the first nature
preserve in America to be regulated under government protection. The National
Park Service was established to oversee the protection of all park
wildlife (common, endangered, and threatened species alike), and works to
preserve an ecosystyem unique to any other in the world.
Thanks to preservation and re-establishment programs set forth by the National
Park Service, nearly all wildlife species that inhabited the park
when it was first explored (over 100 years ago) survive today. Benifits
of these programs ensure a balanced ecosystem, like those which regulate
animal populations needed to reduce spreading of animal diseases, to minimize
stress on the environment (such as habitat loss) resulting from overgrazing
by overpopulated herds, as well as to monitor population declines due to
an abundance of natural predators.