American bison
Bison bison
Near threatenedMammalherbivore
The American bison is a shaggy, hump-shouldered mammal that once roamed grasslands from Alaska to Mexico. These powerful animals are the largest land mammals in North America and live in herds, grazing on prairie grasses.
- Historically ranged from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico
- One of only two surviving bison species worldwide
- Herds once migrated across vast grasslands called the 'great bison belt'
GrasslandNorth America
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- Classification
- Mammal
- Scientific name
- Bison bison
- Habitat
- Grassland
- Regions in this directory
- North America
- Diet
- herbivore
- Relative size
- giant
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened (NT)
