0 a large wild animal, similar to a cow but having a larger head and shoulders covered in hair, found in North America and Europe. The North American bison is also called a buffalo. --
1 a large, wild animal, similar to a cow but having a larger head and hairy shoulders, found esp. in North America: --
The state grants limited permits to hunt wild bison each year.
These include a polar bear, lion, tiger, cheetah, fox, rhinoceros, bison, water buffalo and many birds.
Large mammals, such as the mastodon, mammoth, camels, giant sloths, cheetah, bison antiquus and horses roamed the land.
The bison were theorized to have run in a north-south direction with the hunters upwind of the southerly wind.
This time he wanted to expand the cattle ranching on the island and to do this the number of bison needed to be reduced.
It aims to restore bison, prairie dogs, and ferrets in the area.
Some of the more visible animals include elk (also called "wapiti"), bison, black-footed ferrets, pronghorn and prairie dogs.
After the last ice age only large mammals such as mammoths, bison and woolly rhinoceros remained.