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  Wisent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The last wild wisent in Poland was killed a month ago and the last wild wisent in the world was killed by poachers 1927 in the Western Caucasus.
Wisents were re-introduced successfully into the wild beginning in Poland in 1951.
Wisent have lived as long as 28 years in captivity although in the wild their lifespan is shorter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wisent   (920 words)

  
 Hybrid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a fertile breed; this along with genetic evidence has caused them to be recently reclassified into the same genus, Bos.
Zubron, a hybrid between Wisent (European Bison) and domestic cow.
Sheep-goat hybrids, such as the The Toast of Botswana.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hybrid   (1904 words)

  
 wisent - HighBeam Encyclopedia
WISENT [wisent], name for the European bison, Bison bonasus.
In the wild the wisent is a forest animal; it browses on leaves, ferns, and bark.
Wisents are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Artiodactyla, family Bovidae.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wisent.html   (270 words)

  
 Bison,Mammals,Bison Picture,Mammal Pictures,Catalog,Encyclopedia
The wisent inhabits woodlands and feeds on grasses, ferns, leaves, and tree bark.
The destruction of the forests led to the decline of the bison population in Europe.
On the verge of extinction in the early 1900s, the wisent is no longer endangered; captive breeding has been successfully used to increase the dwindling population.
www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/mammalsindex.asp?counter=21   (372 words)

  
 Steppe Wisent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Steppe Wisent (Bison priscus) was a steppe bison found on steppes throughout Europe, Central Asia, Beringia and North America during the Quaternary.
It is assumed that they evolved somewhere in South Asia which would have them appearing at roughly the same time and region as the Aurochs with which its descendants are often confused.
The Steppe Wisent became extinct in the Late Pleistocene, as it was replaced in Europe by the Wisent and in America by the Bison.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steppe_Wisent   (141 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for wisent
Wisent Whatever you're looking for you can get it on eBay.
wisent WISENT [wisent], name for the European bison, Bison bonasus.
The European bison, or wisent, Bison bonasus, has a less luxuriant mane and beard than the American species, B. bison.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=wisent   (208 words)

  
 Ponsse - Product - Forwarders - Wisent
The P0NSSE Wisent is the answer to the wishes of the whole wood supply chain.
The P0NSSE Wisent ushers in a new era in short-distance timber transport.
Pressure on the ground is minimal, thanks to its unbeatable ratio of net weight to load-carrying capacity, the smallest turning radius in its size class, and dimensions which distribute the load evenly over all the wheels.
www.ponsse.fi /english/products/forwarders/wisent/index.php   (149 words)

  
 WAZA - World Association of Zoos and Aquariums - Projects
The lowland population, living in the forests of Białowieźa at the Russian-Polish border, numbered 737 wisents at the beginning of World War I. The population suffered severely during the first years of the war, and when, in 1916, the Germans took over the administration of the Białowieźa Forest, only 150 animals were left.
In the Caucasus, the Wisent was persecuted by Bolshevist revolutionaries because the species was considered a symbol of oppression as the animals had been preserved for hunting by the Russian aristocracy.
The goal of this first reintroduction of wisents into Slovakia was to contribute to the establishment of a larger trans-border population which will be made up by wisent herds in neighbouring Poland (Bieszczadzki National Park) and the Ukraine, currently comprising about 40 animals each, and the new herd at Poloniny.
www.waza.org /conservation/projects/projects.php?id=46   (1350 words)

  
 Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again
The main difference between semantic-lex and a wisent lexer is that the former is buffer oriented whereas the latter is completely independent of the lexical source.
For example wisent can be used to parse a string (this is what wisent-expr does for example).
This is why token bounds are optionals in a wisent token, whereas token values are mandatory.
article.gmane.org /gmane.emacs.cedet/1079   (664 words)

  
 Klaver4Dieren: Wetenschappelijke artikelen Peter Klaver
The cytochrome oxidase II data favor an early split-off of the wisent, but this is not compatible with data of the control regions (table 1), which indicate an association of wisent with lineage (1).
Interestingly, an introgression of bison bulls in wisent herds (fig.
Like the extant wisent (Bison bonasus), it had relatively long hind legs, but it was larger in size and is not considered to be its ancestor.
www.klaver4dieren.nl /publicw.htm   (3827 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).
By the end of the Middle Ages the wisent's continued survival was in doubt.
By the beginning of the twentieth century the largest remaining group of wild wisent, a herd of some seven hundred or so, were confined to the Bialowieza Forest in what is now northern Poland.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/3807/features/buffalo1.html   (3841 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
WISENT: And I did witness the SWAT team escorting the people from the restaurant.
WISENT: That would be George's Restaurant, right across the street from the bank.
WISENT: No, the only windows is the drive up windows in the rear, and then there's just the windows right there by the door.
archives.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0109/04/bn.02.html   (4939 words)

  
 European bison, Wisent
The wisent is active throughout the day, though the distribution of activity is affected by food supply.
Despite their size, wisent can jump across 3 m / 10 feet wide streams and 2 m / 6 foot tall fences from a standing position.
The wisent is dependent on water, knocking holes in the ice in winter with their hooves to reach the liquid.
www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Bison_bonasus.html   (880 words)

  
 ANIMAL Teachers: Warm-Blooded Ones: Wisent ! European Buffalo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The largest animal in Europe, Wisent is still smaller than his Sister, Buffalo (American Bison).
Wisent prefers to browse in the forests than graze on the plains.
There are now Wisent populations in Great Britain and across Europe living in preserves.
funkman.org /animal/mammal/wisent.html   (402 words)

  
 Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again
As an example, if an analyzer was responsible for filling in a value, such an analyzer could, for Emacs Lisp, return a token with a value that had already been passed through `read'.
> >The main difference between semantic-lex and a wisent lexer is that >the former is buffer oriented whereas the latter is completely >independent of the lexical source.
Dissociating a lexical stream from an Emacs buffer is the forethought I was missing.
article.gmane.org /gmane.emacs.cedet/1080   (821 words)

  
 Polish vodka; Wisent, bison grass vodka of a new generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Polish vodka; Wisent, bison grass vodka of a new generation
The goal was finally achieved in November 1999, and the prototype coumarin-free version of Wisent was made available for tasting.
The Lancut management were bursting with enthusiasm for their new offering, but before launching it they methodically set up a blind tasting to compare it with the full range of zubrovkas available, strictly controlled to rule out bias.
www.polishvodka.pl /wisent-vodka.htm   (1867 words)

  
 Wisent Biocenter - News
Purchase 900$ worth of any Wisent products and get a FREE MP3 Player with FM digital radio.
Wisent announces upgrading its manufacturing facility with a new, state of the art, water for injection quality water system.
Wisent Premium quality serum is a very low toxicity, low/no endotoxin high end product especially designed for the most demanding cell...
www.wisent.ca /?loc=news   (103 words)

  
 Wisent in Sauerland, Schmallenburg, Bad Berleburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
European Bison or Wisent in the Sauerland and Siegerland
This webpage is about the plans to reintroduce the European Bison or Wisent (Bison bisonasus) into an area of forest in the Sauerland and Siegen, in a range of hills known as the Rothaargebirge.
The last polish Bison was killed in 1919, and the last Caucasian in 1927.
www.worlddeer.org /bison-in-sauerland.html   (624 words)

  
 Taurus, Unicorns, Aurochs, Wisent and Bull Worship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Urus is an extinct wild ox (Bos primigenius) of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, believed to be the ancestor of domestic cattle [Latin urus, of Germanic origin].
Wisent is the European bison (Bison bonasus) having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison [German, from Middle High German, from Old High German wisunt].
Pleiades and Orion have biblical references and are associated with Taurus.
www.mazzaroth.com /ChapterFour/GenesisDayNineTaurus.htm   (411 words)

  
 Lowbagger -- Why Montana's Bison Hunt Is News In Poland
The American bison’s European relative is the wisent.
Although alike in many ways, the wisent is more streamlined, with longer legs and smaller hump.
Their dwindling numbers, wartime chaos, and the accompanying poaching doomed them, and by 1919, every wisent in Bialowieza was dead.
lowbagger.org /polandnews.html   (754 words)

  
 Embedded WiSeNts
Cooperating Embedded Systems for Exploration and Control featuring Wireless Sensor Networks - Embedded WiSeNts is a Coordination Action (CA) funded by the European Commission under the Information Society Technology (IST) priority within the 6th Framework Programme (FP6).
Embedded WiSeNts is a joint effort between twelve partners from ten different European countries.
These partners are among the top research institutions in wireless communication and distributed computing as well as in cooperating objects in general, and are at the forefront of ubiquitous communication and wireless sensor networks in particular.
www.embedded-wisents.org   (149 words)

  
 Wisent Biocenter - Products for Life Sciences
Wisent is a producer of high quality cell culture and molecular biology reagents for medical research and biotechnology companies.
Our products are available in 100 mL bottles up to 100 L containers.
Wisent is proud of its ability to produce quality reagents specifically tailored to customer’s needs….on time.
www.wisent.ca   (234 words)

  
 ANIMAL Teachers: Warm-Blooded Ones: Buffalo! American Bison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Today, her Herd’s paths through the mountains became the basis for modern highways.
The natural history of Buffalo follows her Brother Wisent (European Bison).
Just as in Wisent’s case, a group of people sought to save Buffalo from extinction.
funkman.org /animal/mammal/buffalo.html   (588 words)

  
 wisent.htm
Information on each molar is given in English as well as in Dutch.
U kunt hier weer terugkomen door op de BACK-knop van uw browser of op de knop "Wisent" in de knoppenbalk te drukken.
De informatie bij elke kies is zowel in het Nederlands als het Engels.
www.xs4all.nl /~pleismam/wisent.htm   (271 words)

  
 Maternal and Paternal Lineages in Cross-Breeding Bovine Species. Has Wisent a Hybrid Origin? -- Verkaar et al. 21 (7): ...
until the recent divergence of American bison and wisent.
with the recent appearance of the wisent in the fossil record
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues.
mbe.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/21/7/1165   (349 words)

  
 Wisent - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Wisent - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK or LOGIN
Our search facility includes over 50,000 fully cross-referenced historical entries.
THE HISTORY CHANNEL and BIOGRAPHY are trademarks of AandE Television Networks used under license ©2004 AandE Television Networks.
www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=wisent   (325 words)

  
 AlcoholReviews.com Reviews Wisent Bison Grass Vodka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Those familiar with our vodka reviews will recall we spoke highly of Lancut's Biala Dama and Polka vodkas.
Wisent is quite complex, nosing and tasting of coconut, mint, hay and more.
It's remarkably good, and vodka lovers should not pass it by.
www.alcoholreviews.com /SPIRITS/wisent.html   (297 words)

  
 A Pleistocene Bestiary
Distribution of European Wisent (Bison bonasus) in Eurasia During the Wurm/Weichsel/Wisconsin Fullglacial
This is the Sole Distribution of the European Wisent.
Distribution of Steppe Wisent (Bison priscus) in Asia During the Wurm/Weichsel/Wisconsin Fullglacial
archserve.id.ucsb.edu /Anth3/Courseware/Pleistocene/6_Bestiary.html   (1082 words)

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