Bulls from both species of bison are about six feet high, while buffalo of both types are closer to four or five feet. Though we will mainly focus on the American Bison and the African Buffalo ...

President Theodore Roosevelt and others formed in 1905 to help save the animal from extinction was named the American Bison Association. But still, the usage of “buffalo” has persisted ...

It is images such as George Catlin’s “Buffalo Chase with ... between Indigenous peoples and bison. Catlin wrote that he wanted to show individual Native American men riding their horses ...

Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals. How the misnomer came to be is murky, but it’s thought early American settlers called bison “buffalo” because they look similar—large ...

Senate Bill 53 would classify bison as big-game wildlife, which would regulate the killing of the native species. Like it is ...

In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom ...

Tens of millions of American bison, often called buffalo, were once abundant across the plains and as far east as New York, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to the National Park Service.