How To Use wisent In A Sentence
- However, hunting eradicated most populations, and the current range of the wisent is very restricted.
- Then slowe the dowghtie Sigfrid a wisent and an elk, he smote four stoute uroxen and a grim and sturdie schelk. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
- The smaller European relative of the American buffalo, called the European Bison or Wisent, suffered a similar fate.
- 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
- The short-horned kind, with its hump and shaggy mane, was also fairly common east of the mountains; it closely resembled the familiar wisent of Europe. A different flesh
- As a result of this breeding program, there are now over two thousand wisents in the world.
- The first recorded piece of legislation on the protection of the forest dates to 1538 when a document issued by Polish king Zygmunt Stary (Sigismund I Old) instituted the death penalty for poaching a wisent (European bison). Bialowieza Forest, Poland
- Interestingly, an introgression of bison bulls in wisent herds would be compatible with paleontological records.
- All five wisents stayed for several months in the enclosure before being released into the National Park.
- In 1929 a small herd of four wisents was bought by the Polish state from various zoological gardens and from the Western Caucasus (where the wisent was to become extinct just several years afterwards). Bialowieza Forest, Poland
