The American bison is an incredibly interesting critter. Sometimes called buffalo, this name is a misnomer and suggests that the American bison is somehow related to the buffalo of the Old World.

Top photo: Bison from the Wichita National Bison ... So, they knew about African buffalo. And, the American animal seemed to them that it was a sort of a curly-haired humpbacked version.

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Bulls from both species of bison are about six feet high, while buffalo of both types are closer to four or five feet. Though ...

circa 1930: An American bison. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images ... The protagonist: the American buffalo. The documentary will undoubtedly spark a national dialogue around our painful ...

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 ...