a sudden surge of panic i cast around for a recognizable landmark .
the european bison is europe ’s largest land a video showing a rare confrontation between a pack of wolves and a heard of bison has been released by poland ’s forest service .
then , perhaps remembering they are europe ’s largest land animal , the bison stand their ground before mounting a slow charge that sends the wolves scurrying back into the safety of the forest .
bison were hunted to the edge to extinction in europe in the early hello poland , where the european bison has been brought back from the brink of extinction after the last one in the wild was shot in 1919 in the bialowieza forest .
both bison needed to be killed in order to protect the population and instructed two local hunters .
” a man had spotted the european bison next to the river oder near the town of lebus on wednesday and alerted the authorities , according to police .
shot by a fixed camera in the snow - covered bialowieza forest , which straddles the polish - belarusian border , the night - time footage first shows startled bison fleeing as wolves break from the cover of the trees to launch an attack .
according to polish authorities , the animal was probably a bull which had been running around the ujście warty national park on the german - polish border for some time before wandering into the bundesrepublik .
somewhere in the depths of poland ’s bialowieza forest i have taken the wrong path .