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	European bison, Wisent
		Genetic depletion in the European bison (Bison bonasus) and the significance of electrophoretic heterozygosity for conservation.
		Krasin'ski, Z. Dynamics and structure of the European bison population in the Bialowieza Primeval Forest.
		Population and habitat viability assessment for the European bison (Bison bonasus).
	www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Bison_bonasus.html (880 words)

	Bison - MSN Encarta
		Bison, largest terrestrial mammal in North America, where it is usually called buffalo although the bison and true buffalo are different species.
		The bison is characterized by a hump over the front shoulders; short, sharply pointed horns (in both sexes), which curve outward and upward from the sides of the massive head; and slimmer hindquarters.
		The bison is one of the few members of its family to have crossed the Bering Strait land bridge in prehistoric times to North America, where two subspecies, the plains bison and the wood bison, survive.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570386/Bison.html (489 words)

	European Bison - ninemsn Encarta
		European Bison, common name for a grazing bovine mammal resembling an ox; it is also known as the wisent.
		It is a close relative of the American bison (or “buffalo”).
		A male European bison can reach a maximum height of 2 m (6 ft 6 in) at the shoulder and may weigh nearly a tonne (2,205 lb).
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781532819/European_Bison.html (199 words)

	Bison - MSN Encarta
		Biologists prefer the term Bison, which is based on the animal's Latin name, as it distinguishes it from the cape buffalo of Africa and the water buffalo of Asia.
		The bison originated in Eurasia and is one of the few members of its family to have crossed the Bering Strait land bridge in prehistoric times to North America, where two subspecies, the plains bison and the wood bison, survive.
		The plains bison is classified as Bison bison bison, the wood bison as Bison bison athabascae, and the European bison as Bison bonasus.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570386/Bison.html (521 words)

	The Extinction Website - Species Info - Caucasian European Bison
		This bull was crossbred with cows from the Lowland bison Bison bonasus bonasus.
		Of the 12 ancestors, one was a Caucasian bison bull.
		Subsequently, the European bison were maintained in breeding centres and a number of free-ranging populations were formed for return into the wild.
	www.petermaas.nl /extinct/speciesinfo/caucasianbison.htm (2356 words)

	Wainwright Buffalo and even Bison
		Bison, hoofed mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), classified by mammalogists in to 2 species, European Bison (Bison bonasus) also known as Wisent, and the American Bison (Bison bison).
		Bison have short horns and humped, heavily mantled shoulders that slope downward to the hindquarters.
		The winter coat of the American Bison is dark brown and shaggy; it is shed in spring and replaced by a coat of short, light-brown fur.
	members.tripod.com /wonder_buffalo/background.htm (819 words)

	europeanbison
		The European Bison has a red-brown coat in summer, but is a darker colour in winter.
		The European Bison was once found throughout temperate Europe, where it lived in mixed woodlands and clearings and ate grass, twigs, fruit and bark.
		European bison live in small groups, but the adult males live in a mostly solitary life.
	www.geocities.com /magicgoatman/europeanbison.html (221 words)

	bison. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The American bison is commonly called buffalo, although true buffalo are African and Asian animals of the same family.
		By the middle of the century the bison was extinct E of the Mississippi, and by 1900 there remained only two wild herds in North America, one of plains bison in Yellowstone Park, and one of the larger variety, called wood bison, in Canada.
		Bison are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Artiodactyla, family Bovidae.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bi/bison.html (399 words)

	Recently Extinct Animals - Species Info - Carpathian European Bison
		The Carpathian bison was similar to the Caucasian subspecies, Bison bonasus caucasicus.
		Three subspecies of European bison are recognized at this moment, namely the Lowland bison Bison bonasus bonasus (Linnaeus, 1758), Carpathian bison Bison bonasus hungarorum Kretzoi, 1946 and the Caucasian bison Bison bonasus caucasicus Turkin et Satunin, 1904.
		European bison were a popular adversary in the theatre, as mainly dogs were used for animal fights.
	www.petermaas.nl /extinct/speciesinfo/carpathianbison.htm (574 words)

	Bison FAQs: Texas Bison Association
		The use of growth hormones is illegal for use on bison in the U.S., and bison are generally not castrated and artificial insemination is currently not being used.
		Bison are most likely to be injured during working, and it is the most stressful time on the ranch.
		Bison is a great alternative for people who want to improve their diet, but hate to give up the pleasure of red meat.
	www.texasbison.org /bisonfaq.html (2752 words)

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		Bison bison versus Bison bonasus and Bison bonaus bonasus versus Bison bonasus caucasicus.
		Bison bison, yak and watussi die in Zürich from fandm.
		Adding this information and knowing the value of the European bison, when starting the rescue work in the 1920th, who says that a breeder reported handm in his herd, unless he had a radical drop out.
	biphost.spray.se /bison-info/bne_102.htm (1098 words)

	European bison - Bison bonasus: More Information - ARKive
		European bison have an extremely similar social system to their American relatives, and are believed by some to represent the same species (7).
		Bison in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland have traditionally been fed hay in the winter for centuries, and vast herds may gather around this diet supplement (3).
		The protection of the European bison has a long history; between the 15th and 18th Century those in the Tzar's Royal Hunting Forest of Bialowieza were protected and their diet supplemented (3).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Bison_bonasus/more_info.html (786 words)

	European Bison (Bison bonasus) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		European Bison once roamed free in the temperate parts of Europe, but by the 15th century their population started declining.
		Measures were taken for the protection of bison immediately afterwards, and, as a result, there are currently estimated to be around 3200 individuals worldwide, with 200 European Bison breeding centers in 27 countries.
		The picture of this bison was taken at the Artis Zoo of Amsterdam, in July 2005.
	www.cogsci.indiana.edu /farg/harry/bio/zoo/bisoneu.htm (244 words)

	Bison,Mammals,Bison Picture,Mammal Pictures,Catalog,Encyclopedia
		The bison was a principal resource of the Plains Indians, furnishing them with food, skins for shelter and boats, bones for tools and utensils, and "buffalo chips" (dung) for fuel.
		The European bison, bison bonasus, known as the wisent, may weigh up to 1,000 kg (about 2,200 lb) and stand more than 2 m (6 ft 1 in) high.
		The destruction of the forests led to the decline of the bison population in Europe.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/mammalsindex.asp?counter=21 (372 words)

	WWF - Eight more European bison brought to Russia for release in the wild
		Moscow, Russia - As part of its effort to bring the European bison back from extinction in the wild, WWF is today assisting in the relocation of eight European bison from Switzerland's Berne and Winterthur Zoos to Russia for release in their native habitat.
		The European bison disappeared in the wild at the beginning of the 20th century, due to human pressure, habitat destruction, and hunting.
		"The European bison is an integral part of leafed forest and forested steppe biomes, and re-establishing its wild populations is one of the necessary conditions for restoring the natural ecosystems in Europe with all their components," she added.
	www.panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=4406 (460 words)

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		European Bison is obviously not spectacular enough for Governmental Agencies, IUCN, WWF and Greenpeace - to mention some organizations that like publicity in their efforts to protect nature and natural resources.
		It must be bitter for scientists who have devoted their whole life to the study of the European Bison - and there are quite a few - to have their knowledge disregarded and for 30 years even neglected.
		For some 30 years IUCN with its Bison Specialist Group in co-operation with Zoo Associations has managed to put the European Bison in a worse situation than when work was started.
	biphost.spray.se /bison-info/bne_201.htm (1559 words)

	ADW: Bison bonasus: Information
		European bison are smaller than their American counterparts, with adult females ranging from 300-540 kg and adult males from 400-920 kg.
		European bison may provide an economic benefit in that a portion of Bialowieza Forest is set aside for tourists.
		Hartl, G.C. and Pucek, Z. Genetic depletion in the European bison (Bison bonasus) and the significance of electrophoretic heterozygosity for conservation.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Bison_bonasus.html (2133 words)

	Buffalo Vignettes
		Despite this physical or taxonomical similarity, the European bison, known as the wisent, was once considered a separate species from the American bison (plains bison/buffalo).
		A full-grown male plains bison tips the scales at between fourteen hundred and twenty-two hundred pounds, stands between five and half and six and half feet tall at the shoulders, and measures from nine and half to eleven and half feet in total length from nose to tail.
		As early as 1400 the European bison no longer survived in France, it was driven to extinction in Austria and Hungary during the 1500s, and vanished from the Germanys in the 1700s.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/3807/features/buffalo1.html (3841 words)

	Severo-Osetinsky Zapovednik
		European bisons were first restored to the reserve in the 1960s.
		Bison numbers sharply declined: by 1998 there were only 54 animals left; today there are about 50, and their numbers appear to have stabilized.
		European tree frog (Hyla arborea) resides in the moist understory of forested foothills.
	www.wild-russia.org /bioregion5/5-Severo-Osetinsky/5_savero.htm (2363 words)

	European Bison - Bison bonasus
		The story of the European bison, or wisent, is a story of an amazing return from the brink of extinction by a species.
		The bison is the largest and heaviest mammal on the European continent.
		Since all the bison alive today come from a small survivng core group, there is not a great variety in the makeup of their genes.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /european_bison.htm (890 words)

	Bison / Buffalo
		The tongue of the bison was at one time as much of a single target for hunters as the robe (from the hide) or hump; thousands of animals were slaughtered just for the tongue.
		Bison meats should be well trimmed of fat; as with venison, the fat is not the best.
		Bison does tend to have a richer, fuller flavor and the gristle, unless removed, tends to be quite resistant to the teeth of the diner.
	ushotstuff.com /wg/BisonSmp.htm (728 words)

	European Bison Biogeography
		There are two subspecies — the lowland bison (Bison bonasus bonasus) and the highland or Caucasus bison (Bison bonasus caucasus), yet there are no remaining pure Caucasus stock-- they were intermixed with lowland bison and, in some cases, the American bison (Bison bison) before they went extinct in the wild.
		The European bison is the largest mammal on the continent.
		Bison priscus, the immediate ancestor of the European bison went extinct, during the last glaciation.
	www.sfsu.edu /~geog/bholzman/courses/316projects/bison.html (2302 words)

	IUCN
		The European Bison or wisent, is one of Europe’s largest and most impressive mammals, symbolic of earlier times, when Europe’s then primeval forests supported a variety of large herbivores, such as the aurochs (wild ox) and tarpan (wild horse).
		Approximately 60% are in 31 free-roaming/semi free-roaming herds with the remainder spread amongst 200 captive herds.
		The European Bison Action Plan is the result of many experts working together as part of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission to develop programs to study, understand and manage wisely the European Bison and its habitat.
	www.iucn.org /themes/ssc/news/bisonplanlaunch.html (579 words)

	Buffalo Meat For Sale Wholesale Buffalo Meat Bison Meat For Sale Buffalo Meat Sales
		And that's OK. There are 2 subspecies of bison in North America: the Plains Bison (mainly in the U.S. and Canada) and the Wood Bison (mainly in Canada.) There is also a European Bison called the Wisent (pronounced wee'sent).
		Exceptions: The use of growth hormones is illegal for use on bison, and bison are generally not castrated.
		The only truth that bison can forage food in the winter is that they are able to "plow" their head into the snow to get at grass; cattle won't do that.
	www.northforkbison.com /Dispstpg.htm?ID=4 (833 words)

	European bison - extinct in Czech lands since Middle Ages - spotted in North Bohemia - 26-08-2005 - Radio Prague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bison are believed to have disappeared from the Czech lands many centuries ago.
		Because the bison has been spotted on quite a large area, some believe there might even be more than one animal roaming around the Frydlant district.
		Bison - or zubr in Czech - used to be plentiful in Bohemia - as we can still see from the names of villages: Zubri, Zuberec, Zubrnice.
	radio.cz /en/article/70025 (693 words)

	Tyrebagger, European Bison
		The sculptures were made from welded steel and chicken wire frames and covered in the forest using peat, sheep’s wool and other natural materials such as pine needles bound together with waterproof PVA glue.
		Her use of these materials gives the bison a shaggy and earthy appearance which helps them to blend with their surroundings.
		Situated on a slightly downwards sloping track, the bison appear silhouetted against a lighter backdrop which adds drama to the encounter.
	www.tyrebagger.org.uk /page/bison.html (227 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for bison
		The European bison, or wisent, Bison bonasus, has a less luxuriant mane and beard than the American species, B. bison.
		It is a close relative of the American bison, B. bison.
		Le Bison: Gibier et moyen de subsistance des hommes du Paleothihique aux Paleoindiens des Grandes Plaines & Bison Hunters of the Western Prairies: Archaeological Investigations at the Dixon Site (13WD8).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=bison (729 words)

	Reintroduction of the European Lynx (Lynx lynx) in Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Reintroduction of the European Lynx (Lynx lynx) in Poland
		European beaver, bison, elk and lynx in Poland
		In the sixties, the bison was reintroduced into the Borki Forest and the woodlands of the Bieszczady Mountains.
	lynx.uio.no /jon/lynx/alertpo.htm (1929 words)

	Wisent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lowland wisent - Bison bonasus bonasus (Linnaeus, 1758) – (from Białowieża Forest)
		Hungarian (Carpathian) wisent - Bison bonasus hungarorum - extinct
		Caucasus wisent - Bison bonasus caucasicus - extinct, although one individual, a bull named Kaukasus was one of the 12 founders of the modern herds
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_bison (946 words)

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