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21 unusual facts about bison


Animals of Yellowstone

Bison are the largest grazing mammals in Yellowstone National Park.

Antelope Island

By the 1890s the American Bison was extinct over most of its former range and was becoming quite rare.

Apache–Mexico Wars

At the time the Apache were buffalo hunting nomads who had trading relationships with the Pueblos of the Rio Grande valley.

Badger Township, Polk County, Minnesota

Bison roamed over Badger Township into the 1870s, and were actively pursued by Indians and Metis from the Pembina Settlements.

Battle of Whitestone Hill

Meanwhile, some of the Sioux Sibley had chased west across the Missouri River had returned to the east of the river to replenish their winter supplies of buffalo meat.

Catalina Island Conservancy

At one point the collection of Bison imported onto the island were under consideration for removal, but through study and research, the organization determined that if the bison population were kept between 150 and 200, they are actually beneficial to the island.

Cow dung

A buffalo chip, also called a meadow muffin, is the name for a large, flat, dried piece of dung deposited by the American Bison.

Depopulation of the Great Plains

The Buffalo Commons proposal calls for a large part of the drier regions of the Great Plains to be returned to its original condition as a pasture for buffalo and other plains animals.

Great American Desert

Yet descriptions of the American High Plains almost always included comments about "Innumerable Herds of Buffaloes", which was written on Pike's map just above "not a stick of timber".

John Mix Stanley

Probably written in the winter of 1868–1869, these include his preface, as well as pages describing three plates: a Plains Indian encampment, Chinook burial ground, and a buffalo hunt.

North-West Rebellion

Angered by what seemed to be unfair treaties and the withholding of vital provisions by the Canadian government,and also by the dwindling buffalo population, their main source of food, Big Bear and his Cree decided to rebel after the successful Métis victory at Duck Lake.

Paleontology in Kansas

They attributed the fossils to the great buffalo who lived long ago when the Happy Hunting Ground was on earth, before the Great Spirit "removed it beyond the clouds" to punish people for immoral behavior.

Pembina County, North Dakota

They also used the ox-carts to transport food and shelter during extended buffalo hunts.

Pembina, North Dakota

Started by the French as a fur trading post for commerce with the American Indians, it was also tied to trade for American Bison.

Pink Mountain Provincial Park

Plains bison, a relative newcomer to the area, was introduced in 1968 and has since thrived.

Pink Mountain, British Columbia

Pink Mountain is also the only place in the province where wild plains bison roam.

PP-19 Bizon

The PP-19 Bizon ("Bison") is a 9mm submachine gun developed in the early 1990s at Izhmash by a team of engineers headed by Victor Kalashnikov (son of famed AK-47 designer Mikhail Kalashnikov).

Riding Mountain National Park

The park is home to wolves, moose, elk, black bears, hundreds of bird species, countless insects and a captive bison herd.

Tekka Centre

The market was originally known as Kandang Kerbau (or just KK), Malay for "buffalo pens", referring to the slaughterhouses operating in the area until the 1920s, and the name still lives on in the nearby Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital, Kandang Kerbau Police Station and the Kandang Kerbau Post Office.

Wichita people

In the winter, they followed American Bison in a seasonal hunt and left their villages behind.

Woburn Safari Park

The 11th Duke of Bedford had been president of the Zoological Society of London and had introduced various species such as American Bison, Deer, Antelope, Lion and Tiger to the park.


7mm Weatherby Magnum

The 7mm Weatherby Magnum is useful for all American plains game including the great Bears and the American Bison.

Adel Mountains Volcanic Field

Although not permanently inhabited by Native Americans, several tribes camped in the Adel Mountains Volcanic Field on their way to and from bison hunting rounds on the nearby plains (such as the pishkun, or buffalo jump, at nearby Ulm—the largest in the world).

Alamogordo Museum of History

It holds a bison trophy head, a collection of pottery from the La Luz Pottery Factory, and artifacts from prehistoric Native American tribes that were found in caves above Alamogordo.

Antelope Island bison herd

The herd was managed from the Fielding Garr Ranch on the east side of the island and even today the bison in the herd tend to congregate in that area.

Bison may occur almost anywhere on the island, including the northern end near the causeway, but most of them tend to congregate on the east side near the Fielding Garr Ranch.

Antonio de Espejo

Rather than return to the now unfriendly Rio Grande Valley, Espejo decided to return to Mexico via the Pecos River which he called "Rio de Las Vacas" because of the large number of bison the Spaniards encountered during the first six days they followed the river downstream.

Bird City, Kansas

The fertile land of northwest Kansas was once covered with buffalo grass, which was ideal grazing ground for large herds of bison.

Blacktail Butte

At the base of the butte is Mormon Row, a popular place for photographers and tourists, with the photogenic Moulton Barn and herds of bison.

Bob Bindig

He also created the character of Buster Bison as the mascot for the AAA Buffalo Bisons baseball team.

California State Route 73

After leaving the state park, SR 73 straddles the border between Irvine and Newport Beach and provides easy access to University of California, Irvine through the Bison Avenue exit.

Cherokee Sewer Site

The Cherokee Sewer Site is a multi-component Prehistoric Indian Archaic bison processing site excavated in 1973 and 1976 near the sewage treatment plant of Cherokee, Iowa, United States; it is not associated with the Cherokee tribe.

Chugwater, Wyoming

Some historians hold that the name "Chugwater" is derived from a Mandan account of a bison hunt.

Chun-Li

In the 1990s Street Fighter II manga by Masaomi Kanzaki, Chun-Li remains in her established role of an interpol agent investigating Bison, yet frequently expresses her desire to earn Ryu's praise as a genuine fighter.

Clute, Texas

In addition, fossil logs and remains of bison, horse, deer and turtle are present, providing a glimpse of a unique Ice Age environment buried 35' below the surface, said Robson Bonnichsen, director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans.

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (16 June 1762, in Palmanova – August 28, 1844) was an Italian painter, known mainly for his history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes, including veduta di fantasia or capricci.

Golden Nugget Las Vegas

In all Street Fighter II games (except HD Remix), Balrog's (M. Bison in Japanese) stage is set in front of the Golden Nugget.

Great Rocks Dale

In 1932, quarrying opened a fissure which contained remains of bison, Irish elk and deer, washed down from the surface in the distant past.

Hill's Absinth

The father and son operation prospered producing specialties such as Absinth, Radigast (herbal liqueur named after the Slavic God of War) 160 proof 'Alpsky Rum' (Alp Style Rum), and Zubrovka (Bison Grass Vodka), Bison Grass handpicked from the Gomel Region in Belarus.

History of bison conservation in Canada

Buffalo National Park, established in 1909 in Wainwright, Alberta, received its first shipment of 325 bison on June 16, 1909 after being transferred from Elk Island National Park.

Interstate 15 in Montana

The freeway goes through the forest and plains north of I-90 before winding along Bison Creek and later the Boulder River.

Interstate 94 in North Dakota

At Jamestown, it passes the world's largest sculpture of a buffalo (actually bison) named "Dakota Thunder", which is 28 feet tall and is visible from I-94 on the north side of the road.

Joseph-Émile Brunet

He was also granted commission for two large bronze doors depicting animals native to Canada: “The Young Bear” and Cubs,” “Canadian Moose”, “Otters”, “Elk with wolves”, “Polar Bear”, “Beavers”, American Bison”, “Deer” and a “Great white Whale”.

Meanies

Infamous Meanies were takes on celebrities, such as "Donkeyng" for Don King, "Mike Bison" for Mike Tyson, and "Bull Clinton" for then-United States President Bill Clinton.

MS ANT 1

To cope with the increased traffic on the Fleetwood – Larne route the Bison was sent to the River Tyne in 1980 for lengthening.

National Bison Range Complex

The National Bison Range is located approximately one hour north of Missoula, Montana and directional signs from U.S. Highway 93 guide visitors to Moiese, Montana, and the complex headquarters.

National Bison Range herd

The National Bison Range herd of American bison at the National Bison Range Wildlife Refuge in Flathead Valley of the U.S. state of Montana is home to about 350-500 of these animals.

North Dakota State Bison

The Bison Radio Network is a series of 12 radio stations that broadcasts Bison athletics to North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and South Dakota over the air, and around the world via online streaming.

Pierre Bellemare

Le Bigdil : (2 February 1998 - 23 July 2004) - Anthony, the bison

Rumble the Bison

Rumble the Bison is the official mascot of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

According to his official backstory on NBA.com, Rumble is the subject of a Native American tale that has been passed down for centuries which tells of a bison who was struck by lightning while saving his herd from a ferocious storm in the Arbuckle Mountains.

The White Buffalo

For the buffalo scenes, producer Laurentiis hired on Carlo Rambaldi to design an animatronic full-size bison which would slide around on tracks.

Tourism in Madhya Pradesh

In the National Parks of Kanha, Bandhavgarh, Shivpuri and many others one has the rare opportunity to see the tiger, the bison and a wide variety of deer and antelope in sylvan surroundings.

Wood bison

These captive herds are particularly important for conservation and recovery purposes, because the larger free-ranging herds in and around Wood Buffalo National Park were infected with bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis after 7,000 plains bison (Bison bison bison) were trans-shipped by barge from Buffalo National Park near Wainwright, Alberta in the 1920s.

Wood buffalo

Wood Buffalo National Park, a bison reserve in Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada

Woollum

Charlie Woollum, the former head coach of the Bucknell Bison men's basketball team