DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...

Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies of the African buffalo ... buffalo chew cud to further extract nutrients. Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals. How the misnomer came to ...