The American Bison, also known as the Buffalo Is an amazing creature, its size and speed as well as the ability to jump up to 6ft vertically make this a very hard creature to contain. The bison was hunted to the brink of extinction mostly for their hides, as well as to rid the native Americans of their food so they could be corralled into reservations by white settlers around the early 19th century, where the numbers were estimated in the hundreds. Today's population of Bison is estimated in the 30,000 range, just above what conservationists consider "threatened".
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