Buffalo or Bison

Buffalo or Bison. We most often hear the animal called “Bison” but, and I include myself, call it a “Buffalo”. From the National Park Service website – “Because American bison resembled in some ways old world buffalo (Asian and African buffalo), early explorers to North America began to call them buffalo.” In short, the Europeans saw the Asian/African buffalo’s doppelgänger.

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