They were troublemakers.
They have had the buffalo at the prison camp for at least 40 years.I think 1 male and 2 females that calve and they send the calves to the herd around fort riley when they are old enough.
*snort* You may be right. A coworker of mine owned one. One day somebody left a gate open and Billy the bison wandered out. Some ig-nernt redneck passerby thought he'd be helpful and tried to pin Billy between a fence and his pickup. All he managed to do was tick him off. A neighbor who saw it ran to fetch my coworker and his brother from the barn so they could corral him again. The mood he was in, it was useless. The brother got a minor goring ('twas only a flesh wound) and my coworker ended up with all kinds of scratches and bruises. Once the ambulance arrived, there was no one else Billy knew who could possibly get him contained, so my coworker gave permission for them to shoot down the enraged animal while he rode to the hospital with his brother. There had to've been some county LEOs dining on bison for a while - they didn't even leave it to him to dispose of his pet's carcass. Make no mistake, this was one of his favorite animals.