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A herd of bison grazing on the prairie with mountains in the background. A large bull looks out towards the camera.

European bison, Białowieża National Park.

photo of a wisent (Bos bonasus) in the wilderness

European Bisons during winter in Romania

European bisons in the Wildlife Reserve created in the Białowieża Forest.

Wild wood bison seen along the Alaska Highway during spring time with snow covering the ground and white background.

$The European bison (Bison bonasus), also known as the wisent, or the European wood bison, is a Eurasian species of bison. It is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison. Three subspecies existed in the recent past, but only one, the nominate subspecies (B. b. bonasus), survives today. Analysis of mitochondrial genomes and nuclear DNA revealed that the wisent is theoretically the result of hybridisation between the extinct steppe bison (Bison priscus) and the ancestors of the aurochs (Bos primigenius) since their genetic material contains up to 10% aurochs DNA sequences. Alternatively, the Pleistocene woodland bison has been suggested as the ancestor to the species. \nEuropean bison were hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 20th century, with the last wild animals of the B. b. bonasus subspecies being shot in the Białowieża Forest (on the Belarus-Poland border) in 1921, and the last of B. b. caucasus in the northwestern Caucasus in 1927. B. b. hungarorum was hunted to extinction in the mid-1800s. The Białowieża or lowland European bison was kept alive in captivity, and has since been reintroduced into several countries in Europe. They are now forest-dwelling. The species has had few recent predators besides humans, with only scattered reports from the 19th century of wolf and bear predation. European bison were first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Some later descriptions treat the European bison as conspecific with the American bison. It is not to be confused with the aurochs, the extinct ancestor of domestic cattle. \nIn 1996, the International Union for Conservation of Nature classified the European bison as an endangered species. Its status has since been changed to being a vulnerable species. In the past, especially during the Middle Ages, it was commonly killed for its hide and to produce drinking horns. \nThe European bison is a national animal of Poland and Belarus (source Wikipedia).$

European Bison, Wisent, Bison bonasus. Bieszczady, Carpathians, Poland.

European bison in winter, blizzard. Białowieża National Park

European bison (bison bonasus) in the Białowieza Forest in winter day

Bisons sighted at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, USA

A close up shot of bison or buffalo at sunset

Bison or buffalo crossing stream, migrating to good spring grazing in Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, USA

Wolves with prey. Wolves and young bison.

Wild european aurochs in the forest at Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus.

European Bison bonasus wile bovid bovine Europe

The Yellowstone Park bison also known as American bison (Bison bison)

Commonly known as a Buffalo roams Wyoming in herds

A bison grazes on green grass at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota

European wood bisons on a field. European bison lives no longer in the wild (endangered species). Over 2000 european bisons live nowadays in Poland in captivity on dedicated farms/ in wildlife reserves.

European Bison (Bison bonasus). The Bieszczady Mountains, Carpathians, Poland.

Danish nature in sunset last day in springtime

Two bison grazing near steaming thermal geysers in the Yellowstone Ecosystem of western USA. Nearest cities are Denver, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Jackson, Wyoming, Gardiner, Cooke City, Bozeman, and Billings, Montana, North America.

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