In Honor of Ungulates. Yellowstone, Nov '04

Most people call it a Buffalo. This name is so accepted that there are foods, professional sport teams and even cities named after it.
But once you become a bio-snob (like I aspire to be) you start calling it by it's "proper" name. The Bison.

There is one undeniably cool fact about the Bison.

It is huge.

These guys weigh a ton. No, literally. They can weigh upwards of 2,000 pounds. You could fit 22 Mary-Kate Olsens into one Bison, that's how big they are.

In fact, this shaggy behemoth is the largest land animal in the western hemisphere, bar none.

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