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Bookmark or Share- What Happened to the Bison? - U.S. National Park ServiceThe prime bison habitat of the Arkansas Valley—formerly a boundary zone between warring nations—became a shared hunting ground, and the bison population simply could not keep up. The peace of 1840 also gave Comanches and Kiowas access to William Bent’s fort, where they (and other Plains peoples) were drawn into the bustling bison robe trade.
- American Bison | National GeographicBison, symbolic animals of the Great Plains, are often mistakenly called buffaloes. By any name, they are formidable beasts and the heaviest land animals in North America. Size and Diet
- Bison | Size, Population, Diet, & Facts | BritannicaBison, either of two species of oxlike grazing mammals that constitute the genus Bison. Hunting drastically reduced the populations of the American bison (B. bison), or buffalo, and the European bison (B. bonasus), or wisent, and now these animals occupy only small fractions of their former ranges.
- American bison - Smithsonian's National ZooAmerican bison are North America's largest terrestrial animals. Millions once roamed the grasslands and prairies of the Great Plains, but today the bison population survives primarily in conservation herds.
- Basic Facts - Bison (U.S. National Park Service)Bison, or North American Buffalo (Bison bison), are the largest land mammal in North America. Prior to European settlement, millions of bison ranged more widely across the landscape than any other native large herbivore.
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