Bison gores Canadian manAn elderly man out for a morning stroll in Western Canada was apparently gored and killed by a bison on the weekend, media reports said Monday. Keith Conrad, 71, was found dead along a gravel road near Pincher Creek, Alberta Pincher Creek is a town in the southwest of Alberta, Canada. It is located immediately east of the Canadian Rockies in the centre of ranching country, km ( mi) north of Waterton Lakes National Park. The town's mayor is Gary Mills. , that runs through grasslands used for grazing. There were no witnesses, but the victim suffered trauma to his head and a large penetrating wound pen·e·trat·ing wound n. A wound accompanied by disruption of the body surface that extends into the underlying tissue or into a body cavity. to his abdomen consistent with goring by a horned animal, public broadcaster CBC (1) (Cell Broadcast Center) See cell broadcast. (2) (Cipher Block Chaining) In cryptography, a mode of operation that combines the ciphertext of one block with the plaintext of the next block. quoted police as saying. The area is dotted with ranches and oil rigs, and an oil worker reportedly found Conrad while doing his rounds. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. American plains bison and American wood bison were hunted close to extinction during the 19th and 20th centuries but have since rebounded. They are also farmed now. The owner of the bison in this case plans to euthanize euthanize see euthanatize. the ungulate ungulate Any hoofed, herbivorous, quadruped, placental mammal in three or four orders: Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates (including pigs, camels, deer, and bovines); Perissodactyla, the odd-toed ungulates (including horses, tapirs, and rhinoceroses); Proboscidea , said reports. 
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