The American Bison is a
bovine mammal, also commonly known as the American Buffalo, or simply buffalo, something of a misnomer as it is only distantly related to either of the two "true buffalos": the
Water Buffalo and the
African Buffalo.The bison inhabited the
Great Plains of the
United States and
Canada in massive
herds, ranging from the
Great Slave Lake in Canada's far north to
Mexico in the south, and from eastern
Oregon almost to the
Atlantic Ocean, taking its subspecies into account. Its two subspecies are the
Plains Bison (Bison bison bison), distinguished by its smaller size and more rounded hump, and the
Wood Bison (Bison bison athabascae), distinguished by its larger size and taller square hump. With their huge bulk, Wood Bison are surpassed in size only by the massive
Asian Gaur and
Wild Asiatic Water Buffalo, both of which are found mainly in
India and
Southeast Asia.
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