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  2. American bison - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Bison - Wikipedia

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    Bison are thought to migrate to optimize their diet, [47] and will concentrate their feeding on recently burned areas due to the higher quality forage that regrows after the burn. [48] Wisent tend to browse on shrubs and low-hanging trees more often than do the American bison, which prefer grass to shrubbery and trees. [49]

  4. Plains bison - Wikipedia

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    Besides using the meat, fat, and organs for food, plains tribes have traditionally created a wide variety of tools and items from bison. These include arrow points, awls, beads, berry pounders, hide scrapers, hoes, needles from bones, spoons from the horns, bow strings and thread from the sinew, waterproof containers from the bladder, paint brushes from the tail and bones with intact marrow ...

  5. Henry Mountains bison herd - Wikipedia

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    American bison (Bison bison) live in river valleys, prairies, and plains. Typical habitat is open or semi-open grasslands, as well as sagebrush, semi-arid lands and scrublands. Some lightly wooded areas are known historically to have supported bison. Bison will graze in hilly or mountainous areas where the slopes are not steep.

  6. You’ve come across a bison in the wild. It’s looking at you ...

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    You have to give wildlife space because they are wild animals.” But how can things so wrong between placidly grazing, plant-eating bison and folks who just want to get a good look at them?

  7. Wardell Buffalo Trap - Wikipedia

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    Bison were herded into the confined space of the canyon's confined space and killed, the earliest known example of such a place where bison were killed with bow and arrow. The site was first excavated in 1970-71 by Wyoming State Archeologist George Carr Frison , producing about three tons of bison bones mixed with projectile points and ...

  8. Protecting Bison Is Critical To Native American Ecosystem - AOL

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    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 ...

  9. Bison ‘defending its space’ gores 83-year-old woman in ...

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    The woman, from Greenville, South Carolina, was thrown ‘about a foot’ into the air by the animal during the incident