What is another name for buffalo? and how many buffalo were on the great plains in the 1800s?
2006-12-10 16:12:53 · 11 answers · asked by Tracey Fahnestock 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Bison (latin term bison bison bison)
2006-12-10 16:20:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 0⤋
In 1800 there were around 60 million buffalo. Males were called bulls and females are called cows. Also, bison is a term to mean buffalo in general.
2006-12-10 16:18:55 · answer #2 · answered by donnabellekc 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The American Bison (Bison bison) is a bovine mammal, the largest terrestrial mammal in North America, and one of the largest wild cattle in the world. With their huge bulk, Wood Bison–which are the largest subspecies in North America – are only surpassed in size by the massive Asian gaur and wild water buffalo, both of which are found mainly in India. The bison inhabited the Great Plains of the United States and Canada in massive herds, ranging from the Great Slave Lake in Canada's far north to Mexico in the south, and from eastern Oregon almost to the Atlantic Ocean, taking its subspecies into account. Its two subspecies are the Plains Bison (Bison bison bison), distinguished by its smaller size and more rounded hump, and the Wood Bison (Bison bison athabascae), distinguished by its larger size and taller square hump.
The Bison is also commonly known as the American Buffalo, although it is only distantly related to either the Water Buffalo or African Buffalo.
2006-12-10 20:34:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Colorado Land Monkey. There were 17 Buffalo on the "Great Plains" in the 1800's, the rest thought it was so-so.
2006-12-10 16:19:46 · answer #4 · answered by Jkail1 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bison. Many, many thousands roamed the Plains, but were nearly killed off by the Indians, who did use them for food , clothing and shelter, but the white man often slaughtered whole herds of buffalo just for their hides.
2006-12-10 16:17:58 · answer #5 · answered by flamingo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TaTonka...remember "Dances with wolves"? A sea of buffalo once covered the plains but they were decimated by the white man thus adversely affecting the survival of many native americans.
2006-12-10 22:36:35 · answer #6 · answered by jesshispet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya they have always been the Buffalo Bills...when Ralph Wilson first started the team he had a contest to name the team and that was the name they chose...always has been the Bills
2016-03-29 02:45:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bison, and I don't know the number of bisons. Sorry!
2006-12-10 16:18:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's bison
2006-12-10 17:58:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
bison.. no one knows how many there were estimates are over
2,000,000
2006-12-10 16:21:18 · answer #10 · answered by THE bulldog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋