American bison
Bison bison
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Bison bison
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Large (2–4 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- North America
- Habitat
- Grassland
- Conservation status
- Near threatened
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Its huge shoulder hump is muscle that powers the head as it sweeps away snow.
- By the late 1800s hunting had left fewer than about a thousand wild animals.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q82728 · All animals · All entries