European bison
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The European bison or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent, the zubr, or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo, is a European species of bison. It is one of two extant species of
European bison male Białowieza
Side view of a European bison bull
Skull of a European bison
Bison bull showing tongue colouration
Caucasian wisent
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The Caucasian wisent, also known as the Eurasian bison or dombay is an extinct subspecies of European bison that inhabited the Caucasus Mountains of Eastern Europe.
European bison
…the last wild animals of the B. b. bonasus subspecies being shot in the Białowieża Forest (on today's Belarus–Poland border) in 1921. The last of the Caucasian wisent subspecies (B. b. caucasicus) was shot in the northwestern Caucasus in 1927. The Carpathian wisent (B. b. hungarorum) had been hunted to extinction by…
An alleged wild Caucasian bison in the 1900s
Taxidermied specimen, Museum of the Zoological Institute, Russia
A hybrid in Poznań Zoo