How To Use Bison In A Sentence
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This steak house has organically farmed beef and locally raised bison.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island.
Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
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Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
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One is a broken awl, probably made from the neural spine of a bison vertebra.
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After reading her comment, the only thing I would add is that properly-rotated cattle or bison eating grass actually *add* an inch of topsoil to the earth each year.
A better way to die? | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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Thus a succession of closely connected environmental and anthropogenic events destroyed the bison.
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The 500 resident mammals include rhinos, camels, buffalo, bison, wildebeest, lions, tigers, zebra, monkeys, deer, antelopes and wallabies.
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_ But if they are bisons, why are they called buffaloes?
History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians
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The DOL justifies the killings by saying that the bison may transmit brucellosis - a bacterial disease.
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Bison bonasus, the European bison or wisent, has been restricted to mainland Europe throughout its history.
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He came back to Carbon County and the North Platte again and again, first to hunt and fish and, finally, when the bison were gone and most of the biggest heads hung on the walls of estates in the British Isles, to vaguely oversee the cattle ranch that became his in 1883.
Bird Cloud
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Yet a number of the large animal species found at La Brea are no longer found in North America: native horses, camels, mammoths and mastodons, longhorned bison, and sabre-toothed cats.
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I just wanted people to look at the bison," he says of one geocache location across the street from Golden Gate Park's bison pen.
Geocaching Players Treasure the Thrill of the Hunt
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Artwork and human remains indicate that some 40,000 years ago, our ancestors shared this landscape with rhinoceroses, bison, mammoths, aurochs, wild horses, and giant elks.
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Soon after the melt unusual looking Ice Age mega-mammals like woolly mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed lions, and bison roamed the prairies.
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Our Wild Prairies
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The archaeologists last week unearthed engravings of a bison, another ibex, part of a horse and some triangular shapes.
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We arranged for 33 donkeys and miniature donkeys to receive veterinary care, and we found new homes for camels, emus, bison and several large South American rodents called cavies.
Wayne Pacelle: Menagerie of Animals Saved from Suffering
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The Aurochs itself may have been descended from a cattle kind including bison and water buffaloes.
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Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
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1895 OW 1886 OW Fully fifty-four of my discoveries have to do with land animals: alcine elk, moose W dasyurine dasyure antelopine antelope W (1839-47) OW aspine asp 1644 O didelphine opossum bisontine bison 1885 - 1847 OW
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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Unlike the unapproachable bison, the handout-loving burros eagerly greet motorists on the loop.
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An estimated 50 percent of the bison in Yellowstone carry a bacterial infection called brucellosis which Montana and federal authorities spent decades and tens of millions of dollars eradicating from cattle herds in the state.
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Presumably it represents a steppe bison, a species that was relatively common in the Yukon and Alaska during the Mid-Wisconsinan interstadial.
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It has now become a major attraction for wild elephants, bison, hyena and boars.
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Bison meat contains many minerals but is highest in selenium, zinc, phosphorus, iron, copper and magnesium content.
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No other mammoth material, but in the same stretch of creek we've found ancient deer, muskox, bison ...
Field & Stream
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She says deer, elk, Nubian ibex, antelope, bison and yak are particular favourites for canned hunters.
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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
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I mean look at cave art, these are all very exaggerated caricatures of bison with teeny, weeny heads, huge humps, they don't look like real bison.
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He succeeded in mating a cow with the menagerie's bison, but the ensuing pregnancy came to a disastrous end.
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A little chilly perhaps, but the gambison is nice and warm.
Charm XVIII
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Oh, and the wrap (which admittedly is filling because of the brown rice, and bison meat) costs over $9 - or as I like to call it: “a big kick in the balls”.
Pump’s “Street Meat” is a Terrifying Taste of a Healthier Future | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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Siobhan shook her head in grim amusement as Orbison came to his vaguely masturbatory climax and the answerphone clicked off.
The Priest
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As these species became extinct, the giant birds switched to bison, elk, and deer.
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They head like a vast herd of silent bison for the tightly-packed bars, shops and arcades in buildings bejewelled with neon.
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A manitou could take the form of a bison, bear, wolf, mountain lion, bobcat, deer, bird, or some other animal.
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Notable mammals include the reintroduced bison or wisent Bison bonasus (EN), wolf Canis lupus, lynx Felis lynx, otter Lutra lutra and European beaver Castor fiber, also reintroduced.
Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus
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See wildlife such as bison, elk, mountain goats and bighorn sheep.
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In the year 1700, about 60 million bison wandered freely in North America.
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Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton, a skull of an American lion and bones of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, bison, horses, ground sloths and other mammals.
Ice age fossils include almost intact mammoth | clusterflock
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Bison waste no longer fell on the ground to improve the soil.
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Whether bison or buffalo, the animal pictured is one strange crittur.
Buying meat and booze in Cincinnati.
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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
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The park is the site of a successful re-establishment of European bison Bison bonasus (exterminated in Bialowieza Forest in 1919).
Bialowieza Forest, Poland
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Preparing bison meat is comparable to preparing other lean meats.
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Where early travelers saw sharp-tailed grouse, bison, bighorn sheep, grizzly bears, numerous beaver and even wolverines, today they see dust, feral horses, and noxious weeds including cheatgrass, halogeton and Russian thistle.
Bird Cloud
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The motifs and figures represented include polychrome images of bison, masks, and quadrilateral signs of unknown meaning.
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These once hosted and boosted millions of bison, a large North American mammal of the buffalo tribe.
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(sometimes called gnu) which look something like the American buffalo or bison, and hartebeest, stood around in a ring, looking on.
Theodore Roosevelt
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An animal autopsy, called a necropsy, was performed on the bison in the field with the help of two veterinarians.
Columnist: Keith Groller
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It appears to depict a bison's head and forequarters attached to a humanlike body.
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Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena.
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Stephanie Simon/The Wall Street Journal 'If they look like bison, behave like bison, and live in the historical range of bison, let's keep them,' says Rurik List, an ecologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Taking the Breed by the Tail
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As a solution, they began promoting the word ‘bison, 'which had already been used in the Latin name of a closely related European animal, the wisent (Bison bonasus).
Scott Dodd: Buffalo or Bison: What's in a Name?
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The people dine on chamois and boar, aurochs and mutton, bison and walrus.
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‘We found that elk, bison, moose, even the fawns, wouldn't move away unless a machine was stopped and a person started walking,’ he says.
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‘Brucellosis in bison is very similar to brucellosis in cattle,’ says Olsen.
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And I, with a helmet on my head and a gambison but half buckled upon my body, and my hands bare, was fighting with a full-armed Frenchman and was hard pressed.
Via Crucis
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Historic parkland in North Yorkshire is now home to some gentle giants of the animal kingdom - a herd of North American bison.
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The number of wisents, European bison (Bison bonasus), fell from more than 500 to less than 200 in 15 years.
Bialowieza Forest, Poland
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Among those American writers who were originally identified as "minimalists," a group that would include Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ann Beattie, and Tobias Wolff, Mary Robisonmay have been the most minimalist of them all -- or, touse the word she hassaid she prefers to describethenarrative/expository strategy employed by these writers, the most radically "subtractionist.
Dashed to the Ground
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I heard John Harbison, who in addition to his composing, is president of the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, tell this story: the Fund got a call from the Bush inaugural committee, who wanted to do an arrangement of "Fanfare for the Common Man" for heraldic trumpets (you know, the kind you always see in movies about the Roman Empire — hmmm).
Synchronicity
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On the roof of the cave deft hands had painted bison, elk, horses and wild boars.
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Nationally, 41 separate tribes now belong to the Intertribal Bison Cooperative, whose sole mission is buffalo restoration.
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For best quality, cook ground bison within two days of purchase, and steaks and roasts within three to five days.
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Nutrient composition data are available for four lean cuts of bison: rib-eye, clod, top round and top sirloin.
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Rocky Mountain Natural Meats in Henderson recalled the ground and tenderized bison after it was linked to sickening five people in Colorado and one in New York, the U.S.
Rocky Mountain Natural Meats Recalls 66,000 Pounds Of Bison Meat After Being Linked To E. Coli
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The label pulled together songs by British and American artists, some well-known Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, others largely forgotten.
The Economist: Daily news and views
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Camelot Schools has contracts worth $13.1 million to run the Excel Academy, an alternative school for "over-age" high school students on Bustleton Avenue, near Harbison, in the Northeast; and two disciplinary schools, Daniel Boone, at 26th and Jefferson streets, Strawberry Mansion, and Shallcross, at Woodhaven Road near Knights, in the Far Northeast.
Archive 2009-05-01
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In 1997 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency banned the feeding of recycled products from ruminant animals back to other ruminants, like cattle, sheep, goats, bison, elk or deer.
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The Bayesian skyline plot suggests that the bison species went through a severe bottleneck around 10,000 radiocarbon years ago, coincident with the time when many North American megafaunal species went extinct.
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This is where for centuries the native population used to kill bison by driving them over a precipice.
The Sun
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SIMON (voice-over): Limited tolerance because the fear is the bison carry a disease called brucellosis, the disease which causes pregnant animals to abort their young, can spread to cattle.
CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2008
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Earlier in the afternoon, Leyenda Dorada, with John Bisono in the irons, came from just off the pace to win the $87,440 Copa Dama del Caribe.
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Large herds of bison used to live on the plains of North America.
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They would have resembled a bison if not for their scaly skin.
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Wolves primarily hunt in packs for large prey such as moose, elk, bison, musk oxen, and reindeer.
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There are also some familiar faces, such as the musk ox, cougar and bison, that have survived the test of time.
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Orbison's vocal range spanned three octaves.
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Next season, the BSO is premiering a new symphony by John Harbison, and I'll bet money that's how it will be described in the press release: "a new symphony by John Harbison," not "the new John Harbison symphony.
Indicate precisely what you're trying to say
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A Przewalski horse jumps next to a wisent (European bison) in their new wilderness region "Sielmann's natural landscape Doeberitzer Heide" on May 3, 2010 near Berlin, Germany.
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They have introduced the bison - better known as the buffalo of Hollywood westerns - to Hornby Castle, near Bedale.
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Update from Steve: Reid found this site with material on Catal Hoyuk, but I found this comment amusing: "The contours of the volcano are breast-like and the overall shape of the volcano closely matches schematized "bison-woman" paleolithic designs and other goddess representations; it looks distinctly like a body, much more so than like a mountain".
Hasan Dag and Catal Huyuk
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On the roof of the cave deft hands had painted bison, elk, horses and wild boars.
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When they do, they're either forced back in by armed men on horseback and in helicopters, or slaughtered to make sure they don't spread a disease to cattle (even though there's no hard evidence of wild bison ever transmitting the feared disease, known as brucellosis, to domestic livestock).
Scott Dodd: The Homeless Herd: Why Is Ted Turner's Ranch Getting These Wild Bison?
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The key is to get their cattle to mimic the behaviour of the wild bison herds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Grizzly bears and bison were exterminated, and coyotes and prairie dogs were shot on sight and poisoned.
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Organised by Ballina Parish Choir, this event will feature a wealth of local talent and special guests, Janet Harbison and members of the National Harp Orchestra.
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Sometimes they used the flames to drive the bison someplace for easier and safer killing by people on foot.
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The recipe calls for pork butt, but I use stewing beef and I've even seen it done with bison steaks.
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Robison and her colleagues treat the spectrum of abnormalities - nut-allergic responses that range from mild rashes to anaphylactic shock characterized by vomiting, lethargy, even the cessation of breathing.
The Seattle Times
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Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena.
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Three other animals currently undergoing intense reintegration efforts at Prague Zoo are the barn owl, the souslik and the European bison.
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The justification for the slaughter was Montana's fear that the bison could infect its cattle with the bacterium brucellosis.
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This time will see me with a sturdy gambison under the old, grey priestess robe and a fine new weapon to bash things with.
Charm XVIII
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The motifs and figures represented include polychrome images of bison, masks, and quadrilateral signs of unknown meaning.
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O'Rourke retired after a 15-year career with Bisons, latterly as chief executive.
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At one point I hear Charlie Robison's song ‘My Home Town ‘, where there is the part where he sings about being a no-account pipe-line bum who quit his job at the end of the week and took his check and ‘spent it all on pot‘.
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They leave a stalk of bison grass in the bottle.
Times, Sunday Times
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New York's Bronx Zoo, one of the greatest and a pioneer of naturalistic wildlife habitats in zoo-keeping, helped save the bison early last century.
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I have ordered that gambison I was so crazy about and now I'm fretting about what to do with my hair.
Requests - giving mood
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Today the wood and plains bison in North America are the only surviving populations.
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Pratt and Stitt both recognized Hysteropleura as a distinct genus, but Robison has continued to argue in favor of synonymy with Bolaspidella.
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A snatch of conversation at dinner, referring to a prominent local politician: ‘My friend, who's a famous shikari, says that he is bison gone wrong.’
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Over their shoulders are what look like buffaloes or bison.
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Brenden wants a two-year moratorium on relocating bison until state officials write a management plan for what he calls "woolly tanks" that can wreak havoc on crops and land.
The Seattle Times
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On the eastern side of the bluff, the bones of extinct species of bison attest that the promontory was once used as a buffalo jump.
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The bison roam onto Horse Butte to graze in the winter, and when they do, the government kills them because of unwarranted fears that buffalo will infect cattle with the disease brucellosis.
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‘These prairie grasslands once teemed with wildlife like bison, elk, upland sandpipers and bobolinks,’ says LisaYee-Litzenberg.
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Orbison's vocal range spanned three octaves.
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This steak house has organically farmed beef and locally raised bison.
Times, Sunday Times
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O Harry! nurse Joanna tells me that they do eat but frozen turnips and salted beef in his dreadful country, and that the queen-mother, Margaret, wears a gambison [R] and hauberk [S] like to a belted knight.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
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Kids are gawky and awkward enough in junior high without forcing them to wear skinny ties and ill-fitting jackets while roaming like bison through a cramped gymnasium.
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There were wagons parked there, two of them, with bison in the traces ruminating and steaming in the crisp air.
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Like the prairies (see Bison), moorland in Britain acts as a "carbon sink", with peatland storing 3bn tonnes of carbon – equivalent to 20 years of emissions by the UK.
10 sustainable foods for your shopping basket
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The American bison, which is commonly called a buffalo, is not on the U.S. Endangered Species List.
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On one artefact from Nevada, for instance, Newman has identified big cat, sheep, bison and bear blood residues.
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Keynote speaker Mr Harbison delivered a slide presentation which accompanied his lecture.
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Yellowstone does not have many small problems, it has one large one with many parts - namely, the multifarious damage to range and other wildlife perpetrated by overly abundant bison and elk.
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Where people can watch close - up of five well - known African animals: elephant, lion, leopard, rhinoceros and bison.
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How did people who were armed only with weapons of stone, antler, ivory, wood and sinew successfully hunt such beasts as mammoths in the Clovis phase or bison in the subsequent Folsom and Plano periods?
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The mail was of finest rings of steel sewn upon soft doeskin, fitted so closely that there was no room for gambison or jerkin; and though it might have stopped a broad arrow or turned the edge of a blade, a sharp dagger could have made a wound beneath it, and against a blow it afforded less protection than a woollen cloak.
Via Crucis
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It says they aren't oxen at all, and aren't really even related to bison, but more closely to goats and sheep.
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I rank Dall sheep as number 1 with muskox as number 2 and bison as a close number 3 for eating.
Field & Stream
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As it turned out, I did see lots of wildlife -- elephants, monkeys, spotted deer (or chital), bison-like gaur, and wild pigs (see slideshow above) -- but alas I was not lucky when it came to tigers.
Bill Chameides: Save the Tiger ... Indian Style
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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.
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They sign onto the Interagency Bison Management Plan, which continues the hazing, testing, and slaughter of bison.
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John Herbison: This may merely reflect a heightened sense, that regarding prosecution under UCMJ Article 125, as Falstaff observed, “The better part of valour is discretion”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Four Days That Shook DADT”
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Once across the Rocky Mountains, the western bison hunters, who generally enjoyed a surprising degree of intertribal peace at home, especially on the Columbia Plateau, engaged in bitter and bloody fights with plains tribes.
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In North America, bison, pronghorn, and musk ox have increased this past century.
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O'Rourke retired after a 15-year career with Bisons, latterly as chief executive.
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These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican, for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones.
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Large herds of bison used to live on the plains of North America.
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Savage We also had our first taste of the bison burgers and steaks that were to become our staple diet on the trip.
The Sun
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Cuomo's voice, too, has changed over the years, losing some of its hangdog kickability and gaining faint echoes of Roy Orbison's ruefulness, as ‘The Other Way’ hints.
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Today, Harbison is assistant concertmistress of the Springfield, Mass.
The Austin Daily Herald
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We scratched around but did not find any bison remains in the colluvium pile below, and the seemingly carefully placed stones at the front of the shallow cave were only natural rockfall from the ceiling.
Bird Cloud
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Anywhere between 30 and 70 million bison once ranged over the plains of North America.
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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
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Her left hand rests on her belly, while the right holds a bison horn marked with thirteen lines.
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The systematic extermination of the bison wasn't merely trophy hunting gone wild.
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Bison are distinguished by their low horns, rounded forehead, and greater height of the forequarters compared with the hindquarters.
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Then Buondelmonte thrust out straight and sure, in the Italian fashion, and once the mortal wound was in the face, and once in the throat, and many times men felt it in their breasts through mail and gambison and bone.
Via Crucis
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They were once hunted by sportsmen in India as ‘big game’ as was the American bison.
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Shot from a helicopter and a cameraman on the ground, the wolf and bison battle it out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Troll Central has realized that their minions are not intellectually capable of being effective at conventional trolling and bison is one of several sock-puppets that are using unconventional methods to take control of the dialogue.
Think Progress » Mother of man arrested for threatening Pelosi blames ‘really radical’ Fox News.
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By 11,000 years ago there were chipped fragments of stone and bone as humans hunted mammoths, mastodons and bison.
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Our Wild Prairies
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Beef, venison, and bison meat could be smoked for storage or cut into strips and dried.
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Bison and elks were actually expanding before and during human colonization, and their fossilized bones pop up in prehistoric hunter camps, he says.
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SIMON: Limited tolerance because of fears the bison carry a disease called brucellosis, a disease which causes pregnant animals to abort their young can spread to cattle.
CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2008
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In addition to bison, Bovini include the African Cape buffalo, the wild Indian buffalo, the domesticated water buffalo, the dwarf water buffalo (also know as the anoa or Celebes ox), the tamarau of the Philippines, and all true cattle.
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From North America came squirrels and raccoons, bears and bison, eagles and an elk.
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These include wolf Canis lupus, brown bear Ursus arctos, lynx Felis lynx, wild pig Sus scrofa, Caucasian deer Cervus elaphus moral, roe deer Capreolus capreolus, the west Caucasian tur Capra caucasica (EN) and chamois Rupicapra rupicapra and the reintroduced European bison Bison bonasus x B. bonasus caucasicus.
Western Caucasus, Russian Federation
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The bison trainer married Margaret Lesher late last year, a few months after meeting her at a rodeo.
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So far Hornby Castle has six bison cows and one bull - the only ones in the North of England.
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The bear, weak from hibernation, was focused on procuring an easier meal, such as scavenged bison carcasses and the tiny white blossoms that speck the forest edges.
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Unlike the unapproachable bison, the handout-loving burros eagerly greet motorists on the loop.
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And the younger sister took the lead, penning songs about her 2008 divorce from country twanger Charlie Robison.
Album review: Court Yard Hounds, "Court Yard Hounds"
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We whetted our palates with two flavoured varieties, a bison grass and a sweeter sorb apple.
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In both cases, the fossil taxon proved to have osteocalcin sequences that were, firstly, identical to those of its congeneric living relative (B. bison and H. sapiens respectively), and, secondly, distinctly different from those of related genera (Bos in the case of Bison, and Pan, Gorilla and Pongo in the case of Homo).
Archive 2006-03-01
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A disease that has buffaloed scientists, veterinarians, and bison ranchers is yielding some of its secrets.
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That's because government livestock officials fear that bison, which carry a disease called brucellosis, may transmit the disease to cattle.
Homeless On The Range
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* There have been found in the gravel Tertiary mammals including elephas primigenius, elephas Namadicus, stegodon Clifti, and unnamed varieties of bear, deer, bison, ox, horse, rhinoceros, and whale.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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From North America came squirrels and raccoons, bears and bison, eagles and an elk.
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Even the United States government maintains a herd of about twelve thousand wild bison.
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Large herds of bison used to live on the plains of North America.
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With their inherent drama, influenced by French chanson , his new songs could be easily rearranged for vocalists as varied as Chris Isaacs, Raul Malo or Bon Iver's Justin Vernon; the late Roy Orbison would have had much to choose from had he the chance to explore the Condon canon.
The Heart of Beirut's Brass Melancholia
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Wolves primarily hunt in packs for large prey such as moose, elk, bison, musk oxen, and reindeer.
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We pass a small herd of bison lounging on a hot spot - a thermal area, the ranger has told us, where hot water slowly seeps to the surface.
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From North America came squirrels and raccoons, bears and bison, eagles and an elk.
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Currently, species working groups have been established for beef and dairy cattle, bison, camelids, cervids, equine, goats, poultry, sheep and swine.
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If that's the case, Dr. Robison's thorough refutation of the conventional wisdom on childhood obesity ought to provide ample grist for the next round of stories on America's battle with the bulge.
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Last Sunday in Cardiff, the Bison fought their way back from a 2-deficit to tie the game before going down by the odd goal in seven.
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I think we ought'a kill off a bunch of cows every time a bison is infected!
Must read
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Her left hand rests on her belly, while the right holds a bison horn marked with thirteen lines.
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I wished for some kick in the red-chile steak butter I asked for with my bison filet, as a substitute for the advertised port wine sauce.
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There are 54 species of mammal including European bison Bison bonasus (EN), grey wolf Canis lupus and lynx Felis lynx, otter Lutra lutra, beaver Castor fiber (LR) (re-introduced in 1955), northern birch mouse Sicista betulina (LR) and masked shrew Sorex caecutiens (the only known population in Poland), as well as elk Alces alces (uncommon).
Bialowieza Forest, Poland
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As it turned out, I did see lots of wildlife -- elephants, monkeys, spotted deer (or chital), bison-like gaur, and wild pigs (see slideshow above) -- but alas I was not lucky when it came to tigers.
Bill Chameides: Save the Tiger ... Indian Style
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Salmon in the lower 48 states are well on their way to attaining a status enjoyed by some of their notable brethren — wolves, condors, grizzles, bison — wild animals that are unlikely to disappear entirely, but struggle to hang on as remnants of once flourishing species in small portions of their original range.
Salmon decline in western North America~ historical context
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The Indians adapted to the invasion, indicating they were not a passive and static element, and adopted a new resource use strategy that tied their fate to that of the bison.
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T-Bone Burnett earned his greatest renown as a producer, helming recording sessions for acts ranging from Roy Orbison to Sam Phillips.
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The disease can cause female bison, cattle, and elk to abort their fetuses.
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Speaking at Emory University, where he received a global innovation award--which could explain the billionaire's mordancy--Turner joked that when he "lost his job," nobody would hire him because of his age so he founded a business he knew little about--the mahogany-paneled restaurant chain Ted's Montana Grill, whose specialty is bison burgers.
Tuner Blasts Parsons' Time Warner
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A zone of 275 ha is used for breeding bison and wild horse of forest tarpan type, in the south-western part of the site.
Bialowieza Forest, Poland
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This may be good news for elk and bison, but it is dreadful news for wolves and foxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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If they look like bison, behave like bison, and live in the historical range of bison, let's keep them," says Rurik List , an ecologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Wondering if That's a Genuine Bison? Try Pulling Its Tail
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During warmer periods the land turned into meadows and steppes, ideal grazing grounds for woolly mammoths, rhinoceroses, bison, horses, elk, and yaks.
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The tree regenerates elsewhere, where there are bison and wild cattle or even domestic buffaloes and cattle.
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On the eastern side of the bluff, the bones of extinct species of bison attest that the promontory was once used as a buffalo jump.
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They essentially tried to do the same thing with the tarpans and the forest bison and some other animals.
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And most of these animals are grass-eaters (herbivores): horses, bison, deer, reindeer and ibex.
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The key is to get their cattle to mimic the behaviour of the wild bison herds.
Times, Sunday Times
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From North America came squirrels and raccoons, bears and bison, eagles and an elk.
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Grazing has always been allowed because cattle mimic the impact bison had on the natural landscape.
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The five national and sixty six provincial parks contain a healthy population of bighorn sheep, mountain goats, elk, bears, wolves, bison and woodland caribou.
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The mauls may have been used to smash bison bone for making bone grease and, in combination with the stone slabs, for reducing dried meat to powder to pack into rawhide parfleches.
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The wildebeest, which is a big antelope which was designed to try to look like a buffalo or bison, gives off terrifying noises in the effort to seem a dangerous beast.
Hemingway on Hunting
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The aromatic compound in bison grass is called coumarin.
How to make żubrówka
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Instead of hunting deer or bison, they hunted each other.
The Sun
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One of the neatest evidences I see of God in Creation is the bison...with an incompletely divided mediastinum.
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