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	Bison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hungarian (Carpathian) Bison - Bison bonasus hungarorum - extinct
		Bison is a taxonomic genus containing six species of large even-toed ungulates within the subfamily Bovinae.
		Only two species are still extant—the American and European bisons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bison (97 words)

	American Bison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bison were hunted almost to extinction in the 19th century and were reduced to a few hundred individuals by the mid-1880s, from which all the present day's managed herds are descended.
		Bison were a keystone species, whose grazing pressure was a force that shaped the ecology of the Great Plains as strongly as periodic prairie fires and which were central to the lifestyle of Native Americans of the Great Plains.
		Bison meat is lower in fat and cholesterol than beef which has led to the development of beefalo, a fertile cross-breed of bison and domestic cattle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Bison (2349 words)

	Bison
		Bison are ruminants, meaning they regurgitate their food and chew it a second time.
		Bison are gregarious, with cows and young animals remaining in herds throughout the year.
		Because the bison represents the free and open spirit of the western prairie, and because of their near extinction, bison are highly regarded by Americans and visitors to our country.
	www.northern.edu /natsource/MAMMALS/Bison1.htm (1091 words)

	American Buffalo Animal Facts Chaffee Zoological Gardens of Fresno
		Bison historically lived in herds of thousands, but are now found in small herds of about 50 animals.
		The bison's eyesight is poor, though hearing and smell are sharp.
		Unlike domestic cattle, bison are able to forage in snow to reach food.
	www.chaffeezoo.org /animals/bison.html (196 words)

	Wildlife Notebook Series: American Bison - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
		Bison are frequently visible throughout the summer at an overlook near Mile 242 on the Richardson Highway.
		American bison (Bison bison), which shaped the lifestyle of the Plains Indians and figured prominently in American history before they were brought to near extinction, were transplanted to Alaska from Montana in 1928.
		While bison were the most common large land mammal in Alaska thousands of years ago, all of Alaska's existing wild bison came from 20 animals released near Delta Junction.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/biggame/bison.php (813 words)

	bison.htm
		Bison is one of the best tasting of all meats; this is my opinion, and apparently the opinion of many others, as this red meat has rapidly been appearing on the menus of fine restaurants throughout the world over the last decade.
		Bison, also known as buffalo, is a highly nutrient dense food because of the proportion of protein and minerals in relation to its caloric value.
		Bison also happens to be one of the most nutritious meats on earth, which is why I eat it more than any other meat, and recommend it so highly to you.
	www.mercola.com /forms/bison.htm (1032 words)

	American bison
		Unlike the native Americans, who had traditionally hunted the bison for food, tools, and their hides, the European's slaughter was primarily for sport, with people shooting from the newly built railway, seeing how many they could kill in a day.
		Grooming is a surprisingly frequent activity among bison, with animals rubbing themselves on trees until all of the bark has been torn off, and the trunk left smooth.
		Due to their bulk and the climate in which they live, bison may be active at any hour, although there appears to be a preference for daylight hours.
	www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Bison_bison.html (1231 words)

	Theodore Roosevelt National Park Buffalo or Bison
		A bison cow is similar in appearance to the bull, but is smaller in size, weighing up to 1100 pounds and reaching a height of four to five-and-a-half feet at the shoulder.
		Bison are herbivores or plant eaters, and feed primarily on wheat grass, buffalo grass, blue grama, and other similar grasses.
		The ancestors of the American bison have been traced by their fossilized bones and are thought to have originated in southern Asia during the Pliocene epoch, some 400,000 years ago.
	www.nps.gov /thro/tr_buffs.htm (1010 words)

	Bison - Yellowstone
		Bison breed from mid-July to mid-August, and bear one calf in April and May. Some wolf predation of bison is documented in Canada and has recently been observed in Yellowstone.
		The purpose of the IBMP is to maintain a wild free-ranging bison population and to address the risk of brucellosis transmissions to protect the economic interest and viability of the livestock industry in Montana.
		Bison also move to winter range in the northern part of Yellowstone.
	www.nps.gov /yell/nature/animals/bison/bison.html (1060 words)

	Bison
		Bison lived primarily on the Great Plains, but some herds were found as far east as the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania and then south into the Carolinas.
		Bison will use their massive heads to push the snow aside in winter to reach the grass beneath.
		The bison was chosen as the State Animal of Kansas in 1955.
	www.gpnc.org /bison.htm (486 words)

	:::::::::: BISON ::::::::::
		BISON is a three-year Shared-Cost RTD Project (IST-2001-38923) funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies initiative of the Information Society Technologies Programme of the European Commission.
		BISON draws inspiration from biological processes and mechanisms to develop techniques and tools for building robust, self-organizing and adaptive NIS as ensembles of autonomous agents.
		BISON explores the use of ideas derived from complex adaptive systems (CAS) to enable the construction of robust and self-organizing information systems for deployment in highly dynamic network environments.
	www.cs.unibo.it /bison/index.shtml (396 words)

	Bison
		The Montana Department of Livestock fears the contamination of cattle by bison carrying the disease brucellosis, although there are no known cases of brucellosis passed by bison to domestic cattle in the wild.
		Bison eat grasses and sedges, moving continuously as they eat so that they do not overgraze an area.
		A symbol of the wild west, the bison can still be found on the Great Plains, in prairies, and forests in parts of Canada and the western United States.
	www.npca.org /wildlife_protection/wildlife_facts/bison.asp (270 words)

	NatureWorks - American Bison
		The bison has long shaggy brown fur, a mane and beard under its chin and a long tail with a tuft of hair at the end.
		Female bison are ready to mate when they are two to three years old.
		The American bison once was found in most of Canada, the United States and parts of Mexico.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/americanbison.htm (418 words)

	Focus On Bison
		Bison were the center of life for the Plains tribes of Native Americans who found in them nearly all the food, clothing, and shelter they needed.
		Bison is a deeper red color before cooking because there is no marbling (white flecks of fat within the meat muscle).
		There are now approximately 150,000 bison in public and private lands in the U.S. Unlike the older, tougher animals the Native Americans ate, today's bison are custom-fed and slaughtered at about 18 months, so the meat is as tender as beef.
	www.fsis.usda.gov /OA/pubs/focusbison.htm (1211 words)

	Bison
		Bison resolves a reduce/reduce conflict by choosing to use the rule that appears first in the grammar, but it is very risky to rely on this.
		Bison is unable to determine at that stage of processing that the rules would require different look-ahead tokens in the two contexts, so it makes a single parser state for them both.
		Bison normally warns if there are any conflicts in the grammar (see section Shift/Reduce Conflicts), but most real grammars have harmless shift/reduce conflicts which are resolved in a predictable way and would be difficult to eliminate.
	www.cs.utah.edu /dept/old/texinfo/bison/bison.html (16305 words)

	Yellowstone National Park's Wildlife: Bison
		Bison mate from July through early August, and the calves are born in April and May. During the spring and early summer, new-born calves can often be viewed in the Firehole area and Lamar Valley.
		Bison are almost always on the move and are seen in different areas during different seasons.
		Due to the management removals and winter-kill, the Yellowstone bison population in March of 1997 was estimated to be approximately 1,200 to 1,500 animals.
	www.yellowstone.net /wildlife/bison.htm (845 words)

	American Bison
		The American bison used to be found on prairies in western Canada and the United States.
		The life span of the American bison is 20 years in the wild and up to 40 years in captivity.
		The bison has a thick brown fur coat which helps it to keep warm in the severe winters of the plains.
	lsb.syr.edu /projects/cyberzoo/americanbison.html (184 words)

	Oakland Zoo: American Bison
		Most of the bison in our herd were born here; one is from a private owner.
		Bison came to North America during the Pleistocene Epoch via the Bering land bridge.
		Early French settlers who saw herds living near the East Coast called them bison because they looked like a European cousin.
	www.oaklandzoo.org /atoz/azbison.html (378 words)

	Prariedog. The Animal In You
		A bison is a wonderful provider and its family never has to worry about life's essentials or being able to afford the obligatory annual holidays.
		No one would ever accuse bison of being handsome; they have plain, placid faces that are difficult to remember, and their staid temperaments complement their looks.
		As is typical of a herbivorous personality, the bison is a resourceful, determined individual with a strongly conservative bent.
	www.animalinyou.com /Bison.htm (311 words)

	Bison
		Bison are part of the family Bovidae, to which cattle and goats belong.
		At the time bison ran wild, they were rated second only to the Alaska brown bear as a potential killer, more dangerous than the grizzly bear.
		One of the physical differences between the old world buffalo and the American bison is the large shoulder hump of the bison.
	www.nps.gov /wica/Bison.htm (744 words)

	Bison Production
		Bison are therefore “non-amenable” (not covered or answerable) under the Federal Meat Inspection Act and are exempt from FSIS requirements for meat inspection for intra-state, interstate, and foreign trade (5).
		Bison or other non-amenable meat from an approved source may be used in an amenable meat food or poultry food product that bears the USDA mark of inspection (circular mark) (7).
		Bison can outrun a horse and turn on a dime; they are good jumpers, kickers, and swimmers; they are strong (about four times stronger than beef cows); and they are not tame.
	www.attra.org /attra-pub/bison.html (7306 words)

	Watchbison Committee
		(The history of the bison in San Francisco, on the North American continent, and as a species, and the relationship and significance of bison to Native Americans are fascinating.
		In 1900, Yellowstone National Park established a sanctuary with 25 of its 500 remaining bison.
		The herds were rapidly slaughtered and by 1889, a mere 1,100 bison remained in the United States and Canada.
	www.bwfly.com /watchbison (1107 words)

	BISON DECALS - transfers for smallscale modellers
		Bison, is one of these companies, which could easily be passed by, despite the fact it is
		Since February 2006 AFTERMARKET are distributor of Bison Decals in Ukraina, Russia and the OSS.
		Since August 2005 MHobby.it are distributor of Bison Decals in Italy and Spain.
	www.angelfire.com /pro/bison (336 words)

	New Page 1
		Because of its open grasslands, the Bison Range is a place for the public to enjoy some excellent wildlife observation and photography.
		The National Bison Range is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
		As its name implies, the Refuge was established to support a population of American bison.
	www.fws.gov /bisonrange/nbr (192 words)

	Bison Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		Although the bison almost went extinct in the late 1800's due to over-hunting, it is now recovering.
		Anatomy: The Bison is up to 6 ft (1.8 m) tall at the shoulder.
		Bison can run at speeds up to 30 mph (48 kph).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/mammals/bison/Bisoncoloring.shtml (172 words)

	freshmeat.net: Project details for bison
		Bison is a parser generator in the style of yacc(1).
		It should be upwardly compatible with input files designed for yacc.
	freshmeat.net /projects/bison (128 words)

	Bison, KS
		Bison is a small town in Rush, [RH], county with an attractive shady downtown.
		All of the street signs have the bison image shown.
		Bison Community Library (785) 356-4803 / 202 Main / P. Box 406
	skyways.lib.ks.us /towns/Bison (135 words)

	Backyard Bison - The Delaware Valley and Lehigh Valley's finest buffalo meat!
		Bison is also more tender than beef, and has a slightly sweeter taste than beef, and no, it is not wild or gamey tasting.
		Backyard Bison is a small, unconventional, farm where we use common-sense practices to naturally produce good food that is good for you.
		Bison are awesome and fascinating creatures with an amazing history.
	www.backyardbison.com (557 words)

	Bison
		Bison is upwardly compatible with Yacc, so properly written Yacc grammars and those users familiar with Yacc should have little trouble, although you do need to be fluent in C to use Bison.
		Bison - Replacement for the parser generator 'yacc'
		Top > Software development > Programs for small specific development tasks > Bison
	directory.fsf.org /bison.html (262 words)

	Bison - Index
		Bison has been a leader in the design and manufacture of structural products since 1919.
		Following the introduction of Part E: 2003 of the Building Regulations, Bison Concrete Products Ltd., together with their strategic partner Lafarge, has developed a series of solutions in relation to the provision of sound attenuation for residential developments for multiple occupation.
		There are five Bison factories strategically situated throughout the U.K. By registering on our site, you can access a wide range of technical product information and our Design Program Software.
	www.bison.co.uk (131 words)

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