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The Plains bison is a bit smaller than the Wood bison. Still, a mature bull can weigh 2,000 pounds. A big Wood bison can go 2,800 pounds. Both are massive and not known for their good dispositions.
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I'm posting this a day late after spending the better part of the day trying to get my computer back in order. November 1st has been designated National Bison Day, although it has not become law. There is a proposal to make elect bison as the national mammal. If you agree, you can vote at votebison.org/. After over a century of decimation, bison are reclaiming their place in America. They deserve national recognition! ‪#‎ILoveWildlife‬ ‪#‎ILoveNature‬ ‪#‎ILoveBison‬ ‪#‎Bison‬ ‪#‎WildlifePhotography‬ in ‪#‎YellowstoneNationalPark‬ ‪#‎YNP‬ ‪#‎DrDADBooks‬ ‪#‎Canon‬ ‪#‎Wildlife‬ ‪#‎Nature‬ ‪#‎Bringit‬ ‪#‎Photography‬ #BisonDay
This is my third series since Christmas. I took the family to Parc Omega between Montreal and Ottawa during our weekend get-away before Christmas. The place was deserted due to rain making the cities miserable. In the country, however, it was fairly easy to get around. The roads were more or less clear and we have a premium set of snow tires with all wheel drive on the suv. Anyway, we felt no pressure driving in the Parc due to how few people were visiting and my camera got a good work out. I will be uploading more images from this visit in the next couple of days. I chose this image to lead off this series because I like where the focus is on the animal far down the line. The next image is virtually the same except that the focus is closer to the lens. There are six images in this series altogether.
This bison was standing in the middle of the road drinking from a puddle. They really have no fear of humans. They also really don't care if they're in your way.
Magnificent beast and pink flowers. We spotted this fellow on our way out of the park. Interestingly, from time to time they go after the tourists, and sometime put an unlucky one in a hospital. It is always wise to take shots from a distance.
Plains Bison (Bison bison) bull in Elk Island National Park east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The park is located in the aspen parkland with a mix of aspen and spruce woods along with large tracts of open grassland. The whole park is surrounded by a high and sturdy fence to confine the animals within its boundary. The park is divided by Highway 16 (Yellowhead Highway) with the south part housing Wood Bison and the north portion having Plains Bison. The number of bison are regulated to maintain a healthy herd and protect the habitat integrity. Excess animals are removed and relocated to areas where they are trying re-establish certain species of wildlife. Plains Bison were moved a number of years ago to Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan to reintegrate this animal back into the prairie ecosystem in a small and controlled manner.
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6 December, 2012.
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his is Europe's largest land mammal which became extinct over most of its range in prehistoric times. They survived in significant numbers in Poland, Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine but were hunted heavily in the 19th century and then were decimated by the First World War when many were killed by troops and poachers. The last wild-roaming bison was shot in Bialowieza forest in Poland in 1919. Almost immediately however a captive breeding programme was started with the remaining zoo animals and by 1945 there were roughly 120 European bison surviving. - See more at: www.highlandwildlifepark.org.uk/animals/detail/european-b...
"It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the stands he'd made against them, laid up in a sag on some rise with the dead animals scattered over the grounds and the herd beginning to mill and the rifle barrel so hot the wiping patches sizzled in the bore and the animals by the thousands and the tens of thousands and the hides pegged out over actual square miles of ground the teams of skinners spelling one another around the clock and the shooting and shooting weeks and months till the bore shot slick and the stock shot loose at the tang and their shoulders were yellow and blue to the elbow and the tandem wagons groaned away over the prairie twenty and twenty-two ox teams and the flint hides by the hundred ton and the meat rotting on the ground and the air whining with flies and the buzzards and ravens and the night a horror of snarling and feeding with the wolves half-crazed and wallowing in the carrion." ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
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I shot this bison in San Francisco... with my camera, you silly! There is a small herd of beautiful American Bison living in a paddock in Golden Gate Park.
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Bison in Lone Elk County Park near St. Louis, Missouri. Photos available for purchase at Wits End Photography. Follow my blog Traveling at Wits End for ways to create travel adventures everyday.
Nachusa Grasslands, Franklin Grove, Illinois, USA. The 3600 acres preserve is owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy and consists of large remnant prairie, woodlands and wetlands. 30 bison were introduced on 1500 acres of the preserve in 2014. As of 2016, 89 animals were roaming the preserve. The bison care for themselves with a minimum of human intervention, other than a yearly roundup to a allow a veterinarian to examine each animal;.
The Yellowstone Bison were finishing up 'the rut", and very tired...............there was such peace and calm before the actual 'storm' coming in on the horizon near Slough Creek.
Yellowstone Nation Park
The power of these animals is totally incredible. Despite their bulk they posses a sharp turn of speed and will move through deep snow with ease.
A pair of bison bulls in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, SW Oklahoma. Except during the breeding season, the bulls remain in small bachelor bands or alone. The older they get it seems the more solitary and grumpy they become.
Seen in the Oklahoma Nature Pics group