The Cape buffalo is 11 feet long but usually weighs ... Though we will mainly focus on the American Bison and the African ...

By the late nineteenth century, the scientific name bison (which ... around the Cape of Africa and experiences in Asia. So, they knew about African buffalo. And, the American animal seemed to ...

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.

Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ... How the misnomer came to be is murky, but it’s thought early American settlers called bison “buffalo” because they look similar—large ...

It is images such as George Catlin’s “Buffalo Chase with ... between Indigenous peoples and bison. Catlin wrote that he wanted to show individual Native American men riding their horses ...

The industry for buffalo hides made some White Americans rich, but it decimated the species as well as the Native American tribes whose lives depended on the bison. Vintage engraving showing ...