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Bison at Prairie State Park, near Kansas
While walking the trails stumbled on this beast in the tall grass.
These slightly larger than the Prairie Bison and are well represented in Alberta, BC, Yukon and Alaska. Taken at Elk Island National Park, Alberta.
This big boy was peacefully grazing and lifted its head to check me out before continuing. The Plain's Bison is one of two subspecies of the American Bison. A big bull can be 1.75 m tall and weigh 900 kg.
Elk Island National Park, Alberta.
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Though the terms are often used interchangeably, buffalo and bison are distinct animals. Old World “true” buffalo (Cape buffalo and water buffalo) are native to Africa and Asia. Bison are found in North America and Europe. Both bison and buffalo are in the bovidae family, but the two are not closely related.
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This pair of older bison had just swum across Yellowstone's Firehole River and we're catching their breath. They were exhausted, wet and muddy. Old timers. They recovered eventually and mosied along to newer pastures.
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Image captured last year on color film (with Mamiya C220), reprocessed in black and white with an infrared emulation.
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I think so. This is a member of a free-ranging herd of several hundred Bison on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake that share grazing there with mule deer, pronghorn antelope and bighorn sheep. Twelve American bison were introduced on the island in the late 19th century, when the species was nearly extinct. They flourished in the near ideal habitat of dry grass prairie, devoid of apex predators (excepting man) and were maintained and hunted by private ranchers. In 1981 the State of Utah completed purchase of the island to create a state park. It is one of the few publicly managed herds of American bison, and one of the largest.
My puffin post yesterday wrapped up the seabird series and kicked off a series of multiples...shots with multiple (two or more) subjects.
Here, a herd of bison grazing in a fresh dusting of snow in Grand Teton National Park. The challenge on this one was that the bison were a considerable distance from the road. I wanted to include as much of the heard as possible and zooming to 400mm didn't do that. So I backed off to 200mm which allowed most of the herd to be in the fame, but way too much featureless snow in the foreground. I played with the crop options and settled on this pano crop.
Continuing my horns and antlers set with this bison bull photographed in Badlands National Park. His hind legs look like he may have some reptile DNA, but it's just dried mud.
A female Plains Bison (Bison bison) wanders through the open grassland landscape of Elk Island National Park east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The park is completely fenced and divided in half by a major highway. On the north half of the park is a managed population of Plains Bison while on the southern half is a managed population of Wood Bison. Excess animals are captured, processed (such as tagged and inoculated) and moved to new locations where they may be trying to reestablish bison populations.
The north half is accessible to the public while the southern portion is closed to the public. Wood Bison can be seen at times along the fence line along the highway so you get the opportunity to see the difference between the two sub species.
14 November, 2015.
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A pair of wood bison seen in northern British Columbia. They are noticeably larger than our Plains Bison. Another fine specimen in comments.
Wood bison, the largest animal in the Americas, once roamed throughout present-day Alaska and western Canada. But unregulated hunting in the 1800s nearly wiped them out, and by the middle of the 20th century some thought the animals were extinct. But then, in 1957, a small herd was found in a remote part of Alberta by the crew of a plane flying overhead. Since then, their numbers have rebounded to around 11,000 in Canada, as governmental organizations have helped breed and repatriate them to a few parts of their former range. May they thrive and prosper.
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Up until a year ago, Bison were grazing in this field. Americans like to call them buffalo, but they are only distantly related to the true buffalo.
I am not clear on who has the right of way.
But I think I will let them go first.
Yellowstone National Park
Plains Bison (Bison bison) bull bellowing out its call during the onset of the breeding season in Elk Island National Park east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
There were a number of bulls calling out on the grasslands but none of them were really out to challenge another bull on the day we visited the park. I believe it was still early in the season and they were just starting to feel the biological urge.
23 July, 2016.
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This will be the last photo of the Plains Bison cow taken last week. She looks so docile in this photo, but she was keeping an eye on us as we took her pictures. There was a young female bison laying down behind her, I think she was keeping guard over her.
This cow bison totally closed the boardwalk at Biscuit Basin. I was on the side with the snowcoach and the driver, but the other four were stuck out there surrounded by thermals. Funny for awhile...but she really seemed to be enjoying herself!
The bull is up unable to stand the constant biting and buzzing of the bugs any longer. He soon rolled in his dusty wallow again to help fend them off. But this only does so for a short time. Danged bugs.....