bison
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Meanwhile, Doug has made a confession that haunts the men as they follow a pregnant bison onto an unstable glacier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
The more docile American bison are sometimes seen in US circuses for human entertainment, he explained.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
"At the moment, I am the only one here -- even the only one left in Europe working with European bison," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
When Turner bought his first bison in the late 1970s, perhaps only 30,000 of them remained in North America, a fraction of the tens of millions that once covered the Great Plains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Note, though, that these weren't the huge herds of bison celebrated in the nineteenth-century West.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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