[paul544]

Estimates of the pre-European herd size vary from 30,000,000 to 70,000,000 animals and they ranged over most of North America.

4,900 animals... Sad.

[LexBaird]

Estimates of the pre-European herd size vary from 30,000,000 to 70,000,000 animals and they ranged over most of North America. 4,900 animals... Sad.

Good thing we killed them all. If cattle are bad, imagine the global warming they caused with all those buffalo chips.

[girlangler]

Uh, HELLO.

There used to be a lot more animals and a lot less people, housing developments, concrete parking lots, etc.

What do you propose -- exterminating people so the animals can roam the earth in their former glory again?

[billhilly]

"Estimates of the pre-European herd size vary from 30,000,000 to 70,000,000 animals and they ranged over most of North America.
4,900 animals... Sad."

There aren't that many bedbugs left.

[Vince Ferrer]

Estimates of the pre-European herd size vary from 30,000,000 to 70,000,000 animals and they ranged over most of North America. 4,900 animals... Sad.

That's just one herd. And if you'd like to increase their numbers, you can do your part by eating them. Then people will be motivated to raise them, so that you can eat them, and they will once again be as plentiful as cattle.