Emerging from a stand of trees in the Northwest Territories of Canada comes a wood bison, the larger of the two subspecies of the American bison. (The plains bison is the other type). The wood bison once numbered in the tens of thousands, roaming the chilly boreal forests and open meadows in northwestern Canada and parts of Alaska. But by the early 1900s, these majestic animals, as with their cousins to the south, were driven almost to extinction by hunting, disease, and habitat loss.
The largest American bison around
Today in History
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National Merry-Go-Round Day
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World Environment Day
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International Tea Day
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Storm rolls over the grasslands
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Just a couple of yellow-billed hornbills
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A delta in the Venetian Lagoon, Italy
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National Bison Day
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