Avid wildlife photographer Rod Young gets to know his subject matters well, especially the bull elk in Prince Albert National Park.

In early October, he noticed one of the bull elk was in distress.

“That particular bull, he had been hanging around there quite a bit, so I had photographed him two or three different times. And on that day he was really hung up with some kind of netting or cargo netting. It might have been somebody’s hammock,” said Young.

He took a couple photos and a short video of the animal and then reported the elk entanglement to Parks Canada staff right away.

“I don’t actually know what it was, but he was really tangled up and pretty stressed out and pretty tired and obviously quite angry and irritated, to say the least,” Young said.

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