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Buffalo and Bison
Buffalo and bison are large mammals that graze on the grasses of North American prairies. Bison were hunted for their skins almost to extinction in the 19th century and were reduced to a few hundred by the mid-1880s.
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Cape Buffalo live in sub-Saharan Africa. Wild water buffalo live in southern and Southeast Asia. Bison, which are sometimes called buffalo but in fact aren't, live in North America and in a very small part of Europe.
Are buffalo and bison the same THING?
Not exactly. Bison are a genus of bovines, and are distantly related to Buffalo. Strictly speaking, there are only 2 buffalo types in the world, and those are the Water Buffalo (found in Asia) and the Cape Buffalo (found in Africa). American Bison are frequently referred to as Buffalo, but they are not true buffalo. Rather, they are classified as Bison, along with the Wisent in Europe.
The bison were a central part of the Indians' food, fuel, shelter, religion and ritual. The increase of railroad transportation and demand for hides in the east drove the bison out of their plains and depleted their herds. Thus causing the Indians to suffer. Without their main source of food and shelter, the Indians had to chose starvation and death or relocating to a reservation.
Where can the largest buffalo or bison herd be found in South Dakota?
Once roaming North America with a population of 20-30 million, the bison population was drastically reduced in the 1870's due to unregulated shooting. The estimated 500,000 today roam the mid-west. Yellowstone National Park has the highest population of free-roaming bison. or they just live in eurasia
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What is the average age of buffalo?
Wild bison usually live up to 25 or 30 years but captive ones often have health problems which stunts their expectancy. I'm not sure if that was what you were asking for but i hope it helped :)
What do nactive Americans eat of buffaloes?
Anything that wasn't bone or sinew.
They used every part of the animal though(horns for cups hoofs for bowls tendons for bow strings things like that)
Landscape of the people of the plains Indians?
The plains Indians had quite a flat landscape. It was also quite dry. However, the weather was quite cold there too if you are looking at places in Canada.
Why did the buffalo herds shrink?
People hunted them. If you want more information, go onto some websites about it, get out a book from your local library, or ask another friend or adult.
Adding on to that, buffalo were one of the main food sources for the American Indians so they were hunted a lot. Somewhere later in history, Americans started to kill the buffalo herds more often than the American Indians and caused the population of the buffalo herds to decrease dramatically.
Why was Buffalo bill's wild west show so popular in Europe?
depicted the unkown 'west'. also, annie oakley.
When did the United States stop mining cobalt?
Although a major consumer of cobalt, the United States stopped producing the metal in 1971.
Please check again and post a new question. Buffalo* nickels were minted from 1913 to 1938, and in any case the US didn't mint any nickels until 1866.
[*] Nickels depicting an Indian head on one side and a buffalo on the other are called Indian head nickels OR buffalo nickels, but not "buffalo head" nickels because they show the entire buffalo, not just its head.
