Wood bison
Subspecies of American bison / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with a subspecies of the African buffalo S. c. mathewsi aka Virunga buffalo, sometimes also referred to as "Mountain buffalo".
The wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) or mountain bison (often called the wood buffalo or mountain buffalo), is a distinct northern subspecies or ecotype[3][4][5][6][7][8] of the American bison. Its original range included much of the boreal forest regions of Alaska, Yukon, western Northwest Territories, northeastern British Columbia, northern Alberta, and northwestern Saskatchewan.[9]
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Wood bison | |
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A bull at Hellabrunn Zoo, Germany | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Genus: | Bison |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | B. b. athabascae |
Trinomial name | |
Bison bison athabascae Rhoads, 1897 | |
IUCN range of the two American bison subspecies.
Plains bison (Bison bison subsp. bison)
Wood bison (Bison bison subsp. athabascae) |
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