[ZULU]

Bison is a more accurate term than "buffalo" as Buffalo are really an old world wild ox - like Cape Buffalo in Africa or Water Buffalo in Asia.

When I saw the title I thought they had identified a remnant population of Woods Bison. I think there were two groups of these - one found in northern Canada and another - presumably extinct which was found as far east as the Delaware River Valley, upstate New York and the southern Appalachians

[AndyJackson]

except bison are related to the gnu, not the african buffalo.

[Varda]

I was taught that the Woods Bison never really existed. That the legends surounding it's existance were never based on an actual wild population.

[dsc]

"Bison is a more accurate term than "buffalo"

Hey, the trappers, mountain men, and scouts like Kit Carson called them buffalo. That makes them buffalo, now and forever, and everybody who says "bison" is a four-eyed, pocket-protected, high-water-trousered, slide-rule-toting poindexter. So there. Nyaaa. (Raspberry)