An American Buffalo Survives a Lightning Strike

There are once-in-a-lifetime moments that slide by unnoticed but you can strike out a bison getting struck by lightning from that list. If not for this photo taken in 2013, perhaps it would remain one of those unanswered questions about the universe that haunt some folks. Impressively, the bovine survived the ordeal and went about its life roaming around the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa. The American buffalo known as Sparky was in the woods for a while and wasn’t expected to survive and the Refuge decided to leave it up to nature. Before getting struck by lightning, Sparky left his legacy behind by fathering three calves.