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The peak of the wood bison's shoulder hump sits anterior to the forelegs, while the plains bison's shoulder hump is located directly above the forelegs. Wood bison also have larger horn cores, darker and woollier hair and less hair on their forelegs, with smaller and more pointed beards. [7]
The North American species is composed of two subspecies, the Plains bison, B. b. bison, and the wood bison, B. b. athabascae, which is the namesake of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada. A third subspecies, the eastern bison (B. b. pennsylvanicus) is no longer considered a valid taxon, being a junior synonym of B. b. bison. [3]
The European bison (pl.: bison) (Bison bonasus) or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent [a] (/ ˈ v iː z ə n t / or / ˈ w iː z ə n t /), the zubr [b] (/ ˈ z uː b ə r /), or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo, [c] is a European species of bison. It is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison.
"The Endangered Species Act is an important part of our history, but it's also an outdated part of our history," Westerman said, noting the law was established in the 1970s.
Bison were once near extinction. The North American bison is an important animal for many plains tribes in the United States, and tribes like the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma play a part in that ...
The bison have been placed in West Blean and Thornden Woods to restore complex habitats to help nature thrive and be more able to cope with climate change, and store more carbon in woodland to ...
Wood bison reintroduction program in Sakha Republic. Since 2006, an outherd of wood bison sent from Alberta's Elk Island National Park was established in Yakutia, Russia [61] [62] [63] as a practice of pleistocene rewilding; wood bison are the most similar to the extinct steppe bison species (Bison priscus).
By 1957, wood bison were thought to have been finally extinct in Canada due to hybridization with the plains bison, which took place in Wood Buffalo National Park between 1925 and 1928. [8] As wood bison species became threatened with the hybridization, relocation and breeding conservation programs specific to wood bison were established in 1963.