PBS1 个月
When American Wildlife Was For Sale
The modern American bison (Bison bison) emerged from larger, ancient predecessors approximately five thousand to ten thousand years ago and soon became a truly continental presence, ranging across ...
PBS1 年
Perspectives | The American Buffalo’s Past and Present
How did views of Yellowstone and its role in American culture help impact the bison? What can Indigenous knowledge of grasslands and bison teach us today? And, of course, is it “Bison” or ...
Smithsonian Magazine17 天
The Bison Returns to the Great American Plains
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division This Winter, if all goes as planned, a caravan of livestock trucks will carry dozens of American bison out of Yellowstone National Park on a 500 ...
Center for Biological Diversity10 年
NATURAL HISTORY
DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...
Smithsonian Magazine2 年
The Uneasy Future of Catalina Island’s Wild Bison
In 1924, during Hollywood’s first golden age, 14 American bison arrived on Santa Catalina Island, 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles. The animals were to appear in two movies being filmed on ...
After 120 years of conservation efforts, Yellowstone bison are a single breeding population ...
By the early 1900s, American bison numbers had been reduced by 99.9% across North America and only 23 wild bison were known ...