The American bison (Bison bison) is a species of bison native to North America. Sometimes colloquially referred to as buffalo (a distinct species of bovine), it is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the European bison. Once roaming in...
The wisent (Bison bonasus) or the European bison is a European species of bison. These animals were hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 20th century. Some of them were kept alive in captivity, and have since been reintroduced into several...
The wood bison (Bison bison athabascae ) or mountain bison (often called the wood buffalo or mountain buffalo), is a distinct northern subspecies or ecotype of the American bison. Its original range included much of the boreal forest regions of...
The Plains bison (Bison bison bison ) is one of two subspecies/ecotypes of the American bison, the other being the wood bison (B. b. athabascae ). A natural population of Plains bison survives in Yellowstone National Park (the Yellowstone Park bison...
The Caucasian wisent (Bison bonasus caucasicus ) or dombay (домбай ) was a subspecies of European bison that inhabited the Caucasus Mountains of Eastern Europe.
The Carpathian wisent (Bison bonasus hungarorum ) was a subspecies of the European bison that inhabited the Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia and Transylvania. It may also have lived in what are today Ukraine and Hungary.It began to die out about a...