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Although colloquially referred to as a buffalo in the United States and Canada, [2] it is only distantly related to the true buffalo. 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.
Bovines (subfamily Bovinae) comprise a diverse group of 10 genera of medium to large-sized ungulates, including cattle, bison, African buffalo, water buffalos, and the four-horned and spiral-horned antelopes.
For example, buffalo milk is used to make mozzarella in Italy and gulab jamun dessert in India, [70] while sheep milk is used to make blue Roquefort cheese in France. [71] Beef is a food source high in zinc, selenium, phosphorus, iron, and B vitamins. [72] Bison meat is lower in fat and cholesterol than beef, but has a higher protein content. [73]
Bovidae is a family of hoofed ruminant mammals in the order Artiodactyla. A member of this family is called a bovid. A member of this family is called a bovid. They are widespread throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, and are found in a variety of biomes, most typically forest, savanna, shrubland, and grassland.
Żubroń are hybrids of domestic cattle and wisents.. A bovid hybrid is the hybrid offspring of members of two different species of the bovid family. There are 143 extant species of bovid, and the widespread domestication of several species has led to an interest in hybridisation for the purpose of encouraging traits useful to humans, and to preserve declining populations.
Nov. 24—More than 400 Washington hunters have submitted elk or deer samples to be tested for a deadly disease this year. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has gathered 423 samples ...
On April 11 the Department of Natural Resources confirmed the first positive CWD test result in a wild deer in Waushara County. The 3-year-old buck was found dead in early February in the town of ...
A deer (pl.: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose).