Bison is a type of massive herbivorous animal from the ruminant category, belonging to the Bovinaesubfamily, which was once widespread as a wild animal in the northern hemisphere.The only living representatives of the bison are its two varieties, theAmerican bison (Bison bison) and the European bison - the wisent (Bison bonasus). European bison were hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 20th century, with the last wild animals of the Carpathian wisent subspecies being shot in the Białowieża Forest (on the Belarus-Poland border) in 1921, and the last of Caucasian wisent in the northwestern Caucasus in 1927.
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