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Zwei Urgesteine der Tierwelt ....Der Wisent ist seit der Ausrottung des Auerochsen Europas schwerstes und größtes Landsäugetier und zudem der letzte Vertreter der wildlebenden Rinderarten des europäischen Kontinents. Wisente weisen 14 Rippenpaare und fünf Lendenwirbel auf. Das Hausrind dagegen hat 13 Rippenpaare und sechs Lendenwirbel. Geschlechtsreife Wisentbullen sind wesentlich schwerer und größer als ausgewachsene Kühe.
Today was a beautiful late summer day. and we went to a wildlife park to enjoy the weather and take some photos.
The animals seemed to enjoy the weather as well. When we had a visit to the European Bisons, they gave us an amazing show by running through the dry sand and creating a beautiful background for backlight photos.
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The wisent, also called European bison, is
the largest living land mammal in Europe.
There are currently a few thousand bison living there
in Europe, of which less than 70 in the Netherlands.
This herd consists of about 20 bison and lives in the area "Kraansvlak". That area consists of
330 hectares of old and young coastal sand dunes
and natural dune lakes. From open dune
grassy landscapes to dense coniferous and deciduous forests
The wisent is the cousin of the American bison and a distant relative of our domestic cattle. Compared to our domestic cattle, they have a much slimmer build, a high back, short, curved horns and a fairly even chestnut brown coat. They are therefore difficult to spot in the shade of an adult forest. Bison are well adapted to a life in a wooded environment, but in addition to forest, they also need grassland and thickets for food. With their slender build and their short, curved horns, they can also move easily through thickets and dense young forest.
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De wisent, ook wel Europese bizon genoemd, is
het grootste levende landzoogdier in Europa.
Er leven daar momenteel een paar duizend bizons
in Europa, waarvan minder dan 70 in Nederland.
Deze kudde bestaat uit ongeveer 20 bizons en leeft in het gebied "Kraansvlak". Dat gebied bestaat uit
330 hectare oude en jonge kustzandduinen
en natuurlijke duinmeren. Van open duin
graslandschappen tot dichte naald- en loofbossen
De wisent is de neef van de Amerikaanse bizon en een verre verwant van ons gedomesticeerde vee. In vergelijking met ons gedomesticeerde vee hebben ze een veel slankere bouw, een hoge rug, korte, gebogen hoorns en een redelijk egale kastanjebruine vacht. Ze zijn daarom moeilijk te vinden in de schaduw van een volwassen bos. Bizons zijn goed aangepast aan het leven in een bosrijke omgeving, maar hebben naast bos ook grasland en struikgewas nodig als voedsel. Met hun slanke bouw en hun korte, gebogen hoorns kunnen ze zich ook gemakkelijk door struikgewas en dicht jong bos verplaatsen.
Die Cuxhavener Küstenheiden sind ein Naturerbe, das auf dem deutschen Festland einmalig ist. In der weiten Landschaft verhindern Wisents, Koniks und Auerochsen, dass aus der Heide Buschland wird. www.nlwkn.niedersachsen.de
The European bison (Bison bonasus) or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent (/ˈviːzənt/ or /ˈwiːzənt/), the zubr (/zuːbər/), or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo, is a European species of bison. It is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison. The European bison is the heaviest wild land animal in Europe, and individuals in the past may have been even larger than their modern-day descendants. During late antiquity and the Middle Ages, bison became extinct in much of Europe and Asia, surviving into the 20th century only in northern-central Europe and the northern Caucasus Mountains. During the early years of the 20th century, bison were hunted to extinction in the wild.
The species — now numbering several thousand and returned to the wild by captive breeding programmes — is no longer in immediate danger of extinction, but remains absent from most of its historical range. It is not to be confused with the aurochs (Bos primigenius), the extinct ancestor of domestic cattle, with which it once co-existed.
Besides humans, bison have few predators. In the 19th century, there were scattered reports of wolves, lions, tigers, and bears hunting bison. In the past, especially during the Middle Ages, humans commonly killed bison for their hide and meat. They used their horns to make drinking horns.
European bison were hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 20th century, with the last wild animals of the B. b. bonasus subspecies being shot in the Białowieża Forest (on today's Belarus–Poland border) in 1921. The last of the Caucasian wisent subspecies (B. b. caucasicus) was shot in the north-western Caucasus in 1927.[4] The Carpathian wisent (B. b. hungarorum) had been hunted to extinction in the mid-1800s.
The Białowieża or lowland European bison was kept alive in captivity, and has since been reintroduced into several countries in Europe. In 1996, the International Union for Conservation of Nature classified the European bison as an endangered species, no longer extinct in the wild. Its status has improved since then, changing to vulnerable and later to near threatened.
European bison were first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Some later descriptions treat the European bison as conspecific with the American bison. Three subspecies of European bison existed in the recent past, but only one, the nominate subspecies (B. b. bonasus), survives today. The ancestry and relationships of the wisent to fossil bison species remain controversial and disputed.
The European bison is one of the national animals of Poland and Belarus.
Das Wisent (Bison bonasus) ist das Europäischen Bison. Ca 3200 Tiere leben in der freien Natur. Sein Lebensraum sind Misch und Laubwälder. Das Wisent liebt aber auch offene Flächen wie Weiden und Wiesen. Die Größte freilebende Gruppe lebt in einem Urwald in Polen.
Wisent oder europäischer Bison, gesehen und fotografiert im Tierpark Sababurg bei Kassel / wisent or european bison,, seen in the zoo Sababurg near Kassel, hesse, germany
wisent or European bison
Wisent oder Europäischer Bison
[Bos bonasus]
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Beauty and the Beast....
Here in the dunes there is a herd of Wisents, they produce a lot of shit, but these beauties are fond of it...
Visiting Kraansvlak aka as Wisentcountry...I kept distance meaning less danger but more atmosphere...
The Sauerland is a rural, hilly area spreading across most of the south-eastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, in parts heavily forested and, apart from the major valleys, sparsely inhabited. For these reasons, it has been chosen as the first place in Germany to reintroduce the Wisent (European bison).
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Le Sauerland est une région montagneuse au sud-est de la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie en Allemagne. Les montagnes moyennes du Sauerland qui sont largement boisées atteignent une altitude de 843 m. Le sommet le plus connu est le Kahler Asten avec une altitude de 841 m. Le Sauerland est une région de ski populaire. Ses parties plus élevées disposent d’un climat vivifiant avec des étés frais, des hivers plutôt froids avec abondance de neige et des précipitations annuelles dépassant 1 200 mm.
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Das Sauerland ist eine Mittelgebirgsregion in Westfalen und, je nach Definition, zum Teil auch in Hessen. Es umfasst den nordöstlichen Teil des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges. Eine genaue Abgrenzung ist nicht möglich und die Begriffsdeutung unterliegt einem stetigen Wandel.
European bison with calve - Bison bonasus - European bison - European wood bison - wisent - visent - Bison d'Europe - bisonte Europeo - Eŭropa bizono
europäischer Bison im Sauerland. Das Winterfell geht dahin.
European bison in Sauerland loosing his winter coat.
Im Rothaargebirge leben seit einigen Jahren zwei Wisentherden. Die eine zieht freilebend durch die Wälder, die andere lebt auf einem ca. 20ha großen naturbelassenen Areal. Ziel des Projekts ist, diese Tierart wieder dauerhaft in freier Wildbahn anzusiedeln.
Dieser Bursche gehört zur letztgenannten Herde.