The photo of two ... put the Native American hunters' take at less than 100,000 a year, hardly making a dent on the early 1800s population of between 30 and 60 million bison.

Top photo: Bison from the Wichita National Bison ... So, they knew about African buffalo. And, the American animal seemed to them that it was a sort of a curly-haired humpbacked version.

Bulls from both species of bison are about six feet high, while buffalo of both types are closer to four or five feet. Though ...

The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting in the 19th century.

circa 1930: An American bison. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images ... The protagonist: the American buffalo. The documentary will undoubtedly spark a national dialogue around our painful ...

Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals. How the misnomer came to be is murky, but it’s thought early American settlers called bison “buffalo” because they look similar—large ...