How To Use American bison In A Sentence
- The aurochs Bos primigenius, the wild ancestor of modern cattle, is now extinct, but the American bison also called the plains buffalo, which belongs to the same Bovidae family, displays enormous sexual dimorphism. The Goddess and the Bull
- It might be kloonobargan, the hairy, man-eating savages; or a tharban, that most frightful of lion-like carnivores; or a basto, a huge, omnivorous beast that bears some slight resemblance to the American bison; or, perhaps worst of all, ordinary human beings like yourself, but with a low evaluation of life -- that is, your life. Escape on Venus
- Historic parkland in North Yorkshire is now home to some gentle giants of the animal kingdom - a herd of North American bison.
- The American bison, which is commonly called a buffalo, is not on the U.S. Endangered Species List.
- Most historians agree the bison's primary savior was William Hornaday, a Bronx zookeeper and head of the New York Zoological Society, who helped found the American Bison Society.
- European bison or wisent as they're known in Poland are distantly related to American bison and are different in that they are forest dwellers, rather than roaming the open prairie. Archive 2007-10-01
- They were once hunted by sportsmen in India as ‘big game’ as was the American bison.
- This year my contribution was a buffalo, an American bison.
- Timothy ‘Speed’ Levitch posits that the site should be turned into a park full of free-roaming American bison, popularly known as buffalo.
- An American bison stands in a field on the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma.