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Showing Original Post only (View all)When did the American buffalo disappear and become bison? [View all]
I just realized that the American animal that I've always known as the buffalo isn't a buffalo any more. It's a bison.
Buffaloes live in Africa only, I read.
I know they were sometimes referred to as bison but buffalo was the more common term.
Is the American buffalo now an obsolete term?
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If all that is factual, it's probably the most interesting thing I've ever read on DU
Egalitariat
Jun 2012
#4
It happened about the same time the potato famine completely wiped out the species
slackmaster
Jun 2012
#10
We're talking about basically four types of animals in this thread, no?
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jun 2012
#13
Don't know. Read a history of my great great aunt's brother in law. He worked in a trading post
applegrove
Jun 2012
#16