The Cape buffalo is 11 feet long but usually weighs ... Though we will mainly focus on the American Bison and the African ...

By the late nineteenth century, the scientific name bison (which ... around the Cape of Africa and experiences in Asia. So, they knew about African buffalo. And, the American animal seemed to ...

Indigenous peoples used bison meat and fat for food; hides for clothing, footwear and covering for their lodges; bones for tools; and other parts of the bison for rope, thread, gl ...

Celebrated the first Saturday in November, National Bison Day honors one of the most majestic and recognizable animals of the ...

Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ... How the misnomer came to be is murky, but it’s thought early American settlers called bison “buffalo” because they look similar—large ...

For American wildlife ... Hornaday hoped to find a handful of bison for an exhibit in America’s National Museum, since stuffed ones might well be the only buffalo future Americans would ever ...

James Bailey, retired professor of wildlife biology at Colorado State University, considers the past, present and future of bison in his forthcoming book, American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon.

The industry for buffalo hides made some White Americans rich, but it decimated the species as well as the Native American tribes whose lives depended on the bison. Vintage engraving showing ...

An adult Cape buffalo can weigh between 600 and 2,000 pounds (270 and 907 kilograms) and stand between 4 and 5.6 feet (1.2 and 1.7 meters) tall at the shoulder.

On National Bison Day comes a video reminder, courtesy of Yellowstone National Park, of the awesome power of these legendary beasts.

A great herd of American bison was lost in the Arbuckle Mountains during a ferocious storm - the kind only Oklahoma can produce. Hail fell and tornadoes spun all around the herd as they stampeded ...