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Noun

American bison - large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

American buffalo, Bison bison, buffalo

genus Bison - sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo

bison - any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns

buffalo - meat from an American bison

Translations

bizon

biisoni

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бизон

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Through their efforts, along with those of the American Bison Society, federally protected herds of bison have refreshed the population and guaranteed the bison's permanence on the American landscape.

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The American bison live on a 50-acre pasture off Pine Street that is enclosed by an inner electrified fence, then an outer fence with barbed wire at the top.

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Ultimately, the American bison grazing on the Oklahoma prairie and the Oklahoma sunset over a field of flowers were the winners.

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Yet Bierstadt was also a painter of history, and his figural works, replete with images of Plains Indians and the American bison, are an important part of his legacy as well.

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Several years after I got the Bullard I had the opportunity to shoot an American bison with it.

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6 The Steel Core Belt from Daltech Force is made from two pieces of distressed American Bison leather with a steel core insert.

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Hornaday was an active and outspoken champion of natural resource conservation and a leader in saving the American bison from extinction.

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The set of species is largely the same as before, he says, but he has dropped the American bison because it has not roamed the Great Lakes region in more than 200 years and will never do so again, and dropped the eastern spotted skunk, whose range has contracted beyond the region.

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But within about three-quarters of a century of Europeans penetrating the West, the American bison became nearly extinct.

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