#Buffalo bison

[m1ssingteeth]

saw bison today at the dc zoo

Very cute

The one in the back is gally golly? Forgot the spelling and front is lucy yes both are cows

[b-ls]

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Yellowstone National Park 

May 21, 2019 

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[rhodeislandbaseballexperience]

Rhode Island High School Baseball Stars On Display in SWB RailRiders vs Buffalo Bisons Game

Whenever a former Rhode Island High School Pitcher faces a former Rhode Island High School Hitter in a professional baseball game, you can be certain I will be watching. This matchup of Pannone vs Raposo featured two of Rhode Island baseball's superstars and all-time greats. Read more about their matchup, and who won bragging rights here...

Ok, so by now you have probably realized that I am from Rhode Island, follow Rhode Island baseball, and will always have a special place in my heart for anything Rhode Island. I have written about Rhode Island baseball for more than 2 decades and will remain interested in the baseball journeys of Rhode Island based players. And even though I no longer live in Rhode Island, I still check box…

[rockandroar]

Outta the way! The kings of Metal are charging in! 🤘🏼Meet Steel Stampede, fronted by the legendary Grant Ruffalo. In the world of Rock & Roar, heavy metal music was originated by, and belongs to, animals with horns, and that’s the origin of the “🤘🏼” hand symbol. The last image is a drawing of Grant from all the way back in 2013. Miles will meet these guys in chapter 4!

[musingmanor]

Majestic beast for where the buffalo roam

[olowan-waphiya]

“The Herd on the Move”—William Jacob Hays.

This painting simultaneously breaks my heart and fills me with awe and hope. When people speak about how prevalent the bison were across Turtle Island I’m not sure if it fully HITS just how many were slaughtered, how much this land relied on them for proper ecological balance….

if we want our land to thrive, if we want the next seven generations to survive then we must help the bison (and the indigenous peoples who love/rely on them) to expand and grow until they are once again found all across the land.

[scottpartridge]

Greater #Roadrunner and #bison - day 20 of #birdtober2024 hosted by @aholmesartstudio .

[rocy5]

[bovineblogger]

They’re bison cubed…

HEHEHEHE OK THATS VERY SILLY BUT DO U KNOW THE SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR DOMESTIC WATER BUFFALO!!

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Very, very fresh bison calf.

Months and months ago I promised y'all photos of the bison birth I was lucky enough to observe at the Cleveland Zoo last spring. As requested, they'll be under a cut, because unlike this lovely photo from the zoo announcement post, my photos are... goopy.

His name is Tighee, a name which the zoo said is "the name of a Shoshone chief."

We walked up just as things started to get going, and the story is below the cut...

This is Blue, a female bison who arrived at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in fall of 2022 already pregnant. When we got to the habitat, there were a ton of people gathered around, and it wasn't quite clear what was going on.

Then we noticed her full udder and the extra pair of feet.

She was dead-center in the (pretty large) habitat, which was nice - though there was a crowd, she had some good distance from everyone for most of it. The calf came pretty quickly, all things considered (something especially helpful when you're holding a heavy camera up on full manual zoom without a tripod). Because she was at a distance, my friend and I spent a bunch of time showing people near us photos on my camera screen so they could get a good view.

I was honestly really surprised at the number of people who asked why the zoo staff weren't in there with her, helping her give birth. So we explained to folk that zoo staff don't normally go in with bison on a normal day because they're so big and dangerous, and that during a birth (a time of potential stress for the whole herd, the rest of whom were off to the side of that habitat) it would be especially risky to do so. But you could see people in the zoo's uniform colors clustered around the fence, keeping a close eye on her.

And then there was a calf! For folk who haven't seen what a whole amniotic sac looks like, I'm including the next couple photos.

This one is still mid-birth, as you can see. The hooves come out first, with the calf's head laying parallel to them.

Blue immediately moves to break the amniotic sac and clear the calf's airways of mucus. Om nom nom.

We have open eyes and an awake baby! The amniotic sac is full of fluid that helps protect the baby while it's in the uterus, which means once it's broken, the baby is goopy. One of mom's first jobs is to lick all of it away to dry the calf off.

A first attempt at using legs!

Nope, being born was too hard and legs don't work yet. Time to rest and recover from the effort of thinking about standing up.

The first inquisitive member of the herd, another young female, comes to check out the newest addition.

More attempts at legs! Getting better but still not coordinated enough yet.

They're starting to help the baby stand up. In a non-captive setting it would be important for him to be able to walk pretty quickly after being born, and he has to stand up to be able to nurse!

Everyone comes to check him out, now.

We have legs! They work! He hadn't quite figured out where to nurse from yet, though.

And that's your bison birth for the day!

[skippylynn]

Buffalo cow at the Goodnight Ranch

[animalsandanimals]

Bison calf, photographed by Joan Saba

Source: National Wildlife Federation

[strangebiology]

Three white bison (or, it's ok to say buffalo!) at Bear River State Park in Evanston, Wyoming, including the new white baby! There was a white buffalo born in Yellowstone recently, but these aren't them. There might not be a lot of pictures of these because Evanston isn't as touristy as Yellowstone, but as you can see this conservation herd is fenced in, so it's very easy to find them.

Evanston is also pretty close to Utah so if you're in Salt Lake City, it might be worth a little stopover. Apparently, Evanston is known as the place that Utahns go for their...things that are illegal/more controlled in Utah...

Although FYI the visitor's center is being remodeled until July 1!

[allthecanadianpolitics]

On the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation west of Brandon, Man., schoolchildren are throwing pumpkins into a bison pen, a ceremony and sign of respect to an animal that has deep spiritual significance for Indigenous culture and identity. Community leaders are also educating a new generation about how the bison, known in these parts as buffalo, has important implications for the future of the Prairies – rehabilitating natural grasslands and conserving water in a time of climate change. "The significance of the buffalo goes back hundreds of years. These animals have saved our lives," said Anthony Tacan, a band councillor whose family is the keeper of this herd. "They provided food and weapons out of the bones, tools, the hides for clothing, the teepees. It did everything for us. So going forward, we decided it's our turn to give back. It's our turn to look after them."

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[hotsodax]

Since so many really liked the pictures of the buffaloes I saw during my road trip, here’s a video of a buffalo calf that my mom filmed ^ ^