When driving through Colorado's Estes Park during the elk rut, you might be placing your vehicle at risk.
The accompanying footage shows a large bull elk using its massive antlers to smash the rear side window of a Honda idling alongside a golf course being utilized by dozens of elk.
Moments later the elk bugles to re-announce his presence and returns to a harem of cow elk that may or may not have been impressed.
The (edited) top comment beneath Jenn Franks’ video: "All the cows were like, [f#&%] that was so hot."
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It was not clear when Franks witnessed this event, but the Estes Park elk rut, or mating season, typically runs from mid-September through mid-October.
From the Visit
Estes Park website: "The elk rut is a wild time of year—both for the elk and for us human onlookers. From a safe vantage point, you can watch the bulls (males) attracting, herding, and fighting for their harems.
"He uses that high-pitch bugle to attract cows and his rack and boldness to fight for their honor. The bigger and more mature bulls have the best chances of mating. The drama doesn’t only unfold in the mountains: It is not uncommon to see a harem of 30 cows with one or two bull elk sprawled across the lawns of the golf courses in town."
Franks' video was shared by Lone Star Outdoors, which remarked in its description: "From tearing up the 17th green to smashing up Hondas… The rut in Estes Park is always wild. Only thing that would’ve made it more Colorado was if it was a Subaru.”
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