Bison amerika
Bison amerika (Bison bison) merupakan keluarga sapi mamalia yang biasanya dikenal sebagai kerbau amerika. Bison ini biasanya baik hidup di Amerika, Afrika, dan sebagainya. Di Asia dan Amerika, binatang ini hidup di padang rumput.
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| Spesies: | B. bison |
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Bison bisa mencapai 2 meter (6.6 kaki) tinggi, 3 meter (10 kaki) panjang, dan berat 900 menjadi 2.200 pound (400–1000 kg).
Terdapat dua subspesies, plains bison (B. b. bison), lebih kecil dengan punuk membulat, dan wood bison (B. b. athabascae), lebih besar dengan punuk menyudut.
Pranala luar
Wikispecies mempunyai informasi mengenai Bison bison.
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Bison bison.
- National Bison Association
- Buffalo Field Campaign
- Species proBerkas: American bison by The Nature Conservancy
- Canadian bison Diarsipkan 2005-09-01 di Wayback Machine.
- Bison safety information at Yellowstone National Park from the National Park Service
- The Extermination of the American Bison, by William T. Hornaday from Project Gutenberg
- Wild Bison Reference Project -Collaborative Bibliography for the Conservation, Management and Advocacy of Wild Bison
- American Prairie Foundation
- Papers, 1871-1917 and undated, of buffalo hunter John Wesley Mooar in the Southwest Collection, Special Collections Libraries at Texas Tech University
Referensi
- Gates, C. & Aune, K. 2008. Bison bison. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 06 September 2012.
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