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The known dimensions of the species are on average larger than any extinct and extant bovids, including both the American bison and the European bison, making it the largest known bovid. Overall, it was probably around 4.75 m (15.6 ft) in length and stood about 2.3 m (7.5 ft) or up to 2.5 m (8.2 ft) [6] tall at the withers. [7]
Resembling the modern bison species, especially the American wood bison (Bison bison athabascae), [9] the steppe bison was over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall at the withers, reaching 900 kg (2,000 lb) in weight. [10] The tips of the horns were a meter apart, the horns themselves being over half a meter long.
They are broad and muscular with shaggy coats of long hair. Adults grow up to 2 metres (6 feet 7 inches) in height and 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) in length for American bison [4] [5] and up to 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) in height [6] and 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) in length for European bison. [7]
A pair of horns on a male impala Anatomy of an animal's horn. A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone. Horns are distinct from antlers, which are not permanent.
The heaviest wild bull for B.b.bison ever recorded weighed 1,270 kg (2,800 lb) [34] while there had been bulls estimated to be 1,400 kg (3,000 lb). [35] B.b.athabascae is significantly larger and heavier on average than B.b.bison while the number of recorded samples for the former was limited after the rediscovery of a relatively pure herd. [23]
Bison, also known as buffalo, walk in a herd inside a corral at Badlands National Park, on Oct. 13, 2022, near Wall, S.D. The wild animals were corralled for transfer to Native American tribes ...
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Despite a limited number of samples, large males have been recorded to reach 3.35 m (11.0 ft) in body length with 95 cm (3.12 ft) tails, 201 cm (6.59 ft) tall at withers, and 1,179 kg (2,600 lb) in weight, [15] making it morphologically more similar to at least one of the chronological subspecies of ancestral steppe bisons (Bison priscus sp ...