American bison, also called buffalo, freely roamed North America numbering an estimated 40 million in 1800. Today, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ...

American bison are commonly called buffalo, ... The IUCN describes four subspecies of African buffalo: forest, West African savanna, Central African savanna, and Cape buffalo.

(The wood bison, Bison bison athabascae, which really is much less common, is a separate subspecies.) That’s not to say American bison wasn’t once on the brink of extinction.

Wood bison was the North American bison subspecies once found in Ohio. It wasn’t as prevalent as its relative, the plains bison. Regardless, bison lived in Ohio until the early 1800s, ...

American bison are back on the rise. The problem is, they don't respect fences. ... This story has been updated to distinguish between plains bison and another subspecies.

Before European colonization, North America had an estimated 30 to 60 million plains bison, one of two subspecies of the American bison. They once supported a huge range of other species ...

Plains bison, the slightly smaller of the two North American bison subspecies, are not native to Alaska. They were introduced in the 1920s and now total about 900 animals in herds near Delta ...

Wood bison are a subspecies of the iconic plains bison that once roamed by the millions across the American frontier. Wood bison once inhabited the Canadian Yukon and Alaska before all but ...

Before European colonization, North America had an estimated 30 to 60 million plains bison, one of two subspecies of the American bison. They once supported a huge range of other species, ...