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    The European bison (pl.: bison) (Bison bonasus) or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent (/ˈviːzənt/ or /ˈwiːzənt/), the zubr (/ˈzuːbər/)...
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    reindeer antler. It depicts the 10.5 cm figure of a bison, of the now extinct species steppe wisent (Bison priscus) with its head turned around and showing...
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    from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians. Although the American bison (Bison bison) historically ranged throughout much of North America (from New York...
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    then already famous Font-de-Gaume cave. Outline of one of the bison in the Galerie des Fresques at Font-de-Gaume, showing the preliminary etching or engraving...
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    related grasslands (tropical or subtropical grasslands and parklands) Steppes and related grasslands (e.g. North American "prairies" etc.) Meadows, pastures...
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    narrow-nosed rhinoceros, straight-tusked elephant, southern mammoth, moose, steppe bison and fallow deer. Sympatric predators included bears, wolves, hyenas and...
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    bison (only Bison bison in North America, and Bison bonasus in Eurasia, survived) Ancient bison (Bison antiquus) (H) Long-horned/Giant bison (Bison latifrons)...
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    hybridisation between the aurochs and the steppe bison (Bos priscus) occurred about 120,000 years ago; the European bison (Bos bonasus) contains up to 10% aurochs...
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    Found in the same range as the steppe buzzard in some parts of southern Siberia as well as (with wintering steppes) in southwestern India, the Oriental...
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    across the steppes that allow them to escape natural calamities. Saigas are highly vulnerable to wolves. Juveniles are targeted by foxes, steppe eagles,...
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    European bone caves. It preyed on large mammals (primarily wild horses, steppe bison and woolly rhinoceros), and was responsible for the accumulation of hundreds...
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    Panthera spelaea (redirect from Steppe lion)
    species were giant deer, red deer, wild horse, muskox, aurochs, wisent, steppe bison, young woolly rhino, and young woolly mammoth. It likely competed for...
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    17, 2016. Sipko, Taras P. (2009). "European bison in Russia – past, present and future". European Bison Conservation Newsletter. Vol. 2. pp. 148–159...
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    names "mâthi-môs" and "mâthi-mostos" translate to "ugly moose" and "ugly bison", respectively. In historic times, muskoxen primarily lived in Greenland...
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    (2013). European Bison: The Nature Monograph. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 380 pages. Puzek, Z.; et al. (2002). European Bison Bison bonasus: Current State...
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    introgression. The Eastern Hunter-Gatherers (EHG) population identified around the steppes of the Urals also dispersed, and the Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers appear...
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    Siberia (redirect from Siberian steppe)
    woolly mammoth from Oymyakon, a woolly rhinoceros from the Kolyma, and bison and horses from Yukagir have been found. Remote Wrangel Island and the Taymyr...
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    like the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) contracted. The steppe bison (Bison priscus) migrated into the heartlands of North America from Alaska...
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    skull was kept as a hunting trophy along with the skulls of aurochs and bison. Several other sites in Spain demonstrate the exploitation of S. hemitoechus...
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    animals, including the horn cores of aurochs (Bos primigenius) and steppe bison (Bison priscus), as well as the antlers of red deer (Cervus elaphus). In...
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  • the mountains of Nepal with yak blood, the Beefalo of North America with bison genes, the Selembu breed of India and Bhutan with gayal genes. The Madura...
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    successive periods and climates, covered with forest (deer) or steppe (horses, bison, rhinos, elephants), living herbivores on craggy grounds (mouflons...
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    goods with neighboring tribes, and more easily capture game, especially bison. According to Erin McKenna and Scott L. Pratt, the Indigenous population...
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    recently was the European Wood Bison or wisent. The species was reintroduced with the arrival of three European bison from Białowieża Forest in Poland...
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    the watershed, most leading a nomadic lifestyle and dependent on enormous bison herds that roamed through the Great Plains. The first Europeans encountered...
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    the piece depicts a member of the now extinct Bison species steppe wisent. The artist carved the bison's head turned to its right and licking itself as...
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    and horses (Equus caballus gallicus), sometimes combined with Bovinae (bison or aurochs), became the dominant species of the early Interstadial period...
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    incomplete pair of legs. Above the pendant Venus, and in contact with it, is a bison head, which has led some to describe the composite drawing as a Minotaur...
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    herbivores, such as the woolly mammoth, giant deer, reindeer, saiga antelope and bison – an assortment of animals known as the Mammuthus-Coelodonta Faunal Complex...
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    big bluestem and little bluestem thrive. Mammals in this area include bison, deer, pronghorn, coyotes, beavers, and prairie dogs, while reptiles include...
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