One snowy February afternoon, a few lucky visitors watched as O-Six came thundering down off a ridgeline on the north side of the Lamar Valley in hot pursuit of a bull elk, her two companions sprinting along behind her. The elk bounded across the road near Buffalo Ranch, heading for the Lamar River beyond. O-Six never slowed, but 754 and 755 pulled up when they reached the blacktop, unwilling to cross. O-Six eventually took the bull down herself in the river valley below. Still the two males held back, even after she returned to the road to check on their progress. Only later, under cover of
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