Bison bonasus


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Noun1.Bison bonasus - European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bisonBison bonasus - European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison
genus Bison - sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo
bison - any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
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This story does not stop at the North American plains subspecies (Bison bison bison), but it also applies to the North American woods bison subspecies (Bison bison athabascae) along with the European bison species (Bison bonasus; wisent).
These ratios did not differ significantly from the overall secondary ratios (at birth) nor in Bos taurus (51.52%) (Asdell, 1964), nor in Bison bonasus (49.2%) (Jaczewski, 1958).