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00:57 - Are you serious?
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01:10 (birds chirping)
01:13 (speaking in foreign language)
01:20 - Do you ever feel a little bit nervous going into the water?
01:26 - No, never.
01:27 - No, you're totally used to it.
01:29 (speaking in foreign language)
01:30 - Really, if he does hurt me, it's an accident.
01:33 - Really?
01:34 You're not sure of your relationship with him at all?
01:37 (speaking in foreign language)
01:41 - A lot of training, a lot of hours.
01:46 - If I was going in the water, what would happen?
01:48 - He'd just fall.
01:49 - What do I do with my hands now?
01:51 - Just don't put them in there.
01:54 (laughing)
01:55 - That's a good one.
01:57 He likes to be brushed?
01:58 - Oh, he loves brushing and the brush.
02:00 - Now, Arcee, you don't say it is a domestic buffalo?
02:05 - No, we don't domesticate a buffalo.
02:07 - No?
02:08 - No, they're wild animals.
02:10 This one is probably a little more dangerous to you
02:12 than a wild buffalo,
02:13 because he'll probably do anything to get you.
02:16 - Why?
02:17 - It's my property.
02:18 Now, if it was someone else's property,
02:19 he wouldn't bother you.
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02:23 - The buffaloes live in large flocks
02:26 and defend themselves aggressively when they are threatened.
02:32 But they also fight within the group.
02:35 A strict hierarchy applies
02:38 and only the strongest males can mate.
02:40 And as Arcee has seen,
02:44 this power struggle begins at a very young age.
02:46 - When he was a baby,
02:50 every morning he'd attack me.
02:53 So I told my wife,
02:55 I've got all my cattle tricks,
02:57 I've got all my horse tricks,
02:58 there's nothing working.
02:59 I start working every morning
03:01 and I don't care if he kicks me or he hits me or he charges me.
03:04 I'm going to act like nothing happened.
03:06 I was bruised up, my feet were blistering.
03:09 But by the end of the day, it took the whole day.
03:12 By the end of the day, he was bored.
03:15 Then he would attack everyone except me.
03:17 - Okay, so it was almost like he had given up
03:20 and just gave up on you and just gave up on you,
03:21 and just gave up on you and just gave up on you,
03:22 and just gave up on you and just gave up on you,
03:22 but also you know, they live in a very strict hierarchy.
03:26 So does that mean that he eventually saw you
03:28 as the dominant male and that's why he gave up?
03:30 - Oh, I'm the dominant male, yeah.
03:32 - How do you establish dominance over a bison?
03:34 How do you maintain it?
03:36 - By not having fear.
03:38 You can't have fear.
03:39 I don't have a choice.
03:40 If I don't have a choice, I'm going to have problems.
03:45 - So you established this dominance
03:46 and we know that in the herd, the hierarchy is...
03:49 (birds chirping)
03:51 - Don't do that.
03:51 - No, I can't.
03:52 (birds chirping)
03:55 - Go ahead.
03:56 - He's scared to be in the herd.
03:59 (speaking in foreign language)
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04:05 - If wild things out here attack,
04:20 and he's trying to get out of the enclosure
04:22 and he's trying to get out of the enclosure all the time,
04:23 I can go over there and open it with one hand,
04:26 and he thinks that I'm pretty strong.
04:30 Because he might have been out there
04:31 for an hour or two,
04:33 but I get there and I open the gate without any difficulty.
04:37 And he really believes it.
04:38 He looks at me and he says, "Wow."
04:40 I can grab him by the horns and he thinks I got him.
04:46 You know I don't have, but he thinks I have.
04:49 - Oh, good Lord.
04:50 - This is where I'm going to be right here.
04:52 They don't like to be played with their horns.
04:53 - It is amazing that you can do that,
04:56 you know, achieve that,
04:57 and even touch him where he is without him retaliating.
05:02 I can't help thinking that every time he runs to the gate,
05:07 it's like, "You are holding too much of my time
05:11 with our seed, back off."
05:13 - He has a lot of love.
05:15 I would have never thought that was possible
05:17 from a animal like that, but he feels love.
05:20 - He's a spectacular animal, no question.
05:23 - And like if he's in the house,
05:25 he feels the need to go to the door,
05:27 he goes in the house.
05:28 - If he's in the house?
05:28 - If he's in the house.
05:30 - He goes in the house?
05:31 - Yeah, and if he's in the house, he's back,
05:34 he's going to use the bathroom in the house.
05:37 - I need to see that.
05:39 Go for it, so open the gate.
05:45 - If you have to, go for it.
05:47 - This is definitely the craziest thing I've ever done.
05:53 (bells jingling)
05:56 This is insane.
05:58 He's definitely going to the house.
06:05 Oh my gosh.
06:06 Oh my gosh.
06:08 Mind your step.
06:11 (laughing)
06:13 That is amazing.
06:17 He could still reach for me and sniff me, though.
06:20 (gasping)
06:24 I'm a little bit scared.
06:26 Wow.
06:35 He's got really big eyes.
06:38 I can't get over how gentle he is, though.
06:41 Do you want to see?
06:43 - Well, that's what amazes me about him,
06:46 I didn't teach him to be gentle.
06:48 He just happens to be really gentle
06:51 and very aggressive when he's outside the house.
06:55 - Does this all depend on the territory?
06:57 The padlock is his territory,
06:59 and he knows that he's in his territory.
07:01 This is the dominant male,
07:02 and he needs to be respected.
07:04 Is that how it works with the bison?
07:06 - I think that's the way it is.
07:07 I think when he's in the house,
07:08 he knows that this is his territory,
07:10 and he needs to be respected.
07:13 - I heard something get knocked over,
07:16 and then he went outside again,
07:17 and he just left the place.
07:19 (laughs)
07:21 Can I follow you, or is that too dangerous?
07:23 - You can follow me, but I have to stay between you two.
07:25 - Are you sure?
07:26 - Mm-hmm.
07:27 - You never taught him to be clean,
07:30 if you will, better expression?
07:32 - Never had time to do that,
07:34 but he's a good man, Buffalo.
07:35 (laughs)
07:37 But, so you got to understand,
07:39 he knows that everything I do is for him.
07:42 I never thought I'd against him.
07:44 It's always for his safety and for his happiness.
07:48 He's an exceptional bison.
07:51 Then he can come here and eat with me.
07:52 Come on.
07:53 - He's following Arcie and the food.
07:55 You have to see this.
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08:00 I never would have thought
08:07 I would see such a huge and powerful
08:11 and unpredictable animal
08:13 behave so dignity at home.
08:18 All the way, he sniffs gently,
08:20 he's literally just chilling on the tip of his toes.
08:23 It's just, it's really incredible to watch.
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