You'd be right pathfinder... This was a wanna be herd bull. I shot this picture about 10 minutes after the herd bull taught me a lesson and broke my monopod... 
I learned a couple of lessons like that in Yellowstone when I was a teenager. Not with elk, but once with a rutting bull buffalo ("safely" on the opposite side of the Lamar River), and once with a couple of young bull moose. THose were both my fault. The incident with the grizzly at LeHardy Rapids was not...
