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American BisonBison bison
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The American bison used to be found on prairies in western Canada and the United States. Today it is found in protected places such as parks and reserves throughout North America. The American bison mainly eats grass, leaves, bark, and twigs of trees or shrubs. The life span of the American bison is 20 years in the wild and up to 40 years in captivity.
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American Bison Bison are buffalo. They are in the sheep, goat, and cattle family.
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Bison are brown and black. They have shaggy fur. Bison are very large mammals. They have a big head with horns. Bison have short legs, but they run very fast.
Bison can be taller than a teacher. They can weigh as much as a car! The male is larger than the female.
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Name: American Plains Bison, more commonly called buffalo.
Scientific name: Bison bison
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Description. A large, cowlike mammal with distinct hump in the shoulder region; head, neck, shoulders, and forelegs with long, shaggy hair; hind part of body with short hair; head heavy with short, curved, black horns; tail short and ending in tuft of hair; color brownish black anteriorly, brownish posteriorly. Dental formula: I 0/3, C 0/1, Pm 3/3, M 3/3 X 2 = 32. Exter ...
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Distinguishing Features - Average lenght: Male 3.4 m, Female 2.12 m. Weight: Male 400 - 800 kg., Female 320 - 440 kg. Overall colouration: coppery brown. Head, large, bearded, dark brown to black. Matted, woolly undercoat. Head and shoulders seem disproportionate to slim hindquarters. Horns, short, black on sides of head.
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The large, shaggy animal that we see on coins and described in stories are really bison.
The bison can run as fast as 30 miles an hour.
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CAPE BUFFALOSyncerus caffer
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SUBSPECIES Cape or savanna buffalo, S. c. caffer
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The Biogeography of the European Bison
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Kingdom -- Animalia
Phylum -- Chordata
Class -- Mammalia
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Family -- Bovidae
Genus -- Bison
Species -- bonasus
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Bison, Bos bison
Scientific name: The genus name is from the Latin word Bos (cow or ox). The species name is the Greek word bison (a bison). The same common name, bison, is both singular and plural.
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Size: This is the largest, most massive native land mammal of North America. The adult male bison can attain a maximum of 3.8 m (12.5 ft) in total length, stand 1.8 m (5.9 ft) at the shoulder, a ...
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Grazers. Buffalo prefer river valleys, grassy plains or parkland savanna near water. Bulls are massive with broad bases, and the horns of the bull is larger. Record length for normal horns of a bull measured 142,88mm from outer curve to outer curve. Males are blackish in colour, cows and calves are more dark, reddish-brown. He ...
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Massive head and forequarters covered with long, dark brown woolly hair. Short broad forehead, short neck, and high humped shoulders, with tufted tail. Long hairs of chin form long beard. Hips and hindquarters are much smaller and without long hair thus forming a distinct slope from hump to tail. Some stand six feet at the shoulder and weigh as much as a ton. Have short, sharp, upcu ...
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Bison are the largest land animal in North America. The fur of the head, neck and shoulders is long, shaggy and brownish-black. There is usually a beard on the chin. The rest of the body is covered in shorter hairs of a lighter color. All have a high hump on the shoulders and sharp horns. Females have smaller humps, thinner necks and smaller horns. They shed most of winter coat in ...
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