Are bison and buffalo the same? Well ... Hornaday, started the American Bison Society and a breeding program to save the ...

Charles Jesse “Buffalo” Jones, a reformed hide hunter in Kansas, had switched from killing bison to breeding them (and sometimes crossbreeding them with cattle). At the urging of his wife ...

The park will have 975 bison over the winter. “That’s typical,” Snyder said. “It’s upped by 15 animals because of the conditions.” Two-year-old breeding bulls got the highest prices ...

A recent article in the Bozeman Chronicle described the Yellowstone “Bison Conservation” Transfer Program (“Buffalo rematriation”, 12/24).

"There's a big effort to get buffalo out of Yellowstone to tribes. A lot of tribes are interested in those Yellowstone genetics to enhance the heterogeneity of other herds," — ...

The women who drew the most envious glances proudly donned hats bearing the breeding ... back a bison ecology central to grasslands health and restore truly wild herds of American buffalo.

Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals ... The horns are used for defense and to determine dominance for mating. Females also have horns that are narrower and smaller. Savannah buffalo ...

The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting in the 19th century.