American bison

American bison

       Here's a nifty wiki link on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison

            What this aforementioned post calls the "woods buffalo" I call the "eastern buffalo", a now extinct species. The stories I read suggest the last herd of "eastern buffalo" that was living in a Hollow in Kentucky was killed off once discovered by the locals, whom I suspect ate them, but don't really know for sure.

            So all the buffaloes we see today are the western/plains buffaloes, or so I also believe.

            That the existing buffalo herds we now see were originally bred out of a very small remaining  group has profound genetic consequences,  I also suspect. Only time will tell.