Meet our little surprise! This adorable bison calf was born just five days ago in the Free-Roaming Area, a delightful addition we weren’t expecting but are so thrilled to welcome! The young calf is already showing off its spirited little personality, exploring its surroundings with curiosity, while staying close to mom. Bison are North America’s largest land mammal, with a tufted tail and long brown hair that thickens in winter. Northwest Trek has plains bison, and the other subspecies is wood bison. After a 285-day pregnancy, female bison give birth to a single calf, which is reddish-brown and weighs …

It’s baby animal season here at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park. The first two bison calves of the season were born a few days ago, a perfectly timed entrance with Mother’s Day just around the corner. Animal caretakers at the wildlife park near Eatonville expect more calves among herds of American bison, Roosevelt Elk, woodland caribou, and Columbian black-tailed deer in the next few weeks, and one lamb is already getting nurture from its bighorn sheep mother on one of the wildlife park’s hillsides. Spring and early summer are traditionally a great time to visit the wildlife park, take a narrated …