Bison Versus Buffalo

Plains Bison Americanis

(Bison bison bison)PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGE

The highest point of the hump is directly over the front legs. The legs of the plains bison are shorter than the legs of a wood bison and the plains bison have thick chaps on the front legs. Note:The plains have a thick pendulous bird, full neck mane which extends below the chest-sharply demarcated cape line behind the shoulder and a thick bonnet of hair between the horns. Cape is usually lighter than that of the wood bison. The animal it self is about 1/3 smaller

There is no such animal as an indigenous American Antelope or Buffalo; and there are no indigenous European Antelope or Buffalo either. Bison are not  buffalo; and Prong Horns are not even in the same family as antelope. While the Elk is the national animal of Norway; the Wapiti (which is not an elk) isn't  to be found anywhere in Africa, Asia, Europe or anywhere else, outside of North America that is.

European BisonBison bonasus 

or 

European Woods Bison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_bonasus_(Linnaeus_1758).jpg

As one local legend has it, the most successful population of wild wisent currently lives in the area around Chernobyl, where nuclear fallout from the 1986 disaster has kept humans away, allowing wisent to thrive. The population continues to grow, though (like many royal families) it’s pretty inbred.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wood-Buffalo-NP_Waldbison_98-07-02.jpg Wikipedia identifies themselves as a source of reliable reference; an encyclopaedia. While admittedly in their defence; it is a very poor image, as you can plainly read and observe, the above image has been identified as a Wood Buffalo which it is not. it is not a buffalo. Also observe the head; horns covered by dense woolly bonnet, notice the flat back, the forelock and what appears as a thick pendulous beard. The animal is, also, not a woods bison.

While the legs are longer, a woods bison has virtually no chaps on the front legs. The horns are not covered by bonnet, beard is thin and scraggly The mane is short and does not extend much below the chest and the cape grades smoothly back towards the loins-little or no demarcation, Forelock lies forward in long strands over the forehead and the woods bison is usually darker on the head.

Wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) are North America's largest land mammal.

Like an Aurora Trout, http://cookingforsurvival--yourdownbutnotout.blogspot.com/2010/09/some-of-canadas-fresh-water-fish.html
the 
North American WOODS BISON(shown side view, directly above); which migrated East and West rather than North and South like the Plains Bison; IS A TRUE CANADIAN; 
very few were found south of the Canada, United States of The Americas border. 
They are one of the largest species of beef cattle in the world, surpassed only by two species of buffalo; all of which originate in Asia. Again, there is no such animal as a North American Buffalo.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:African_buffalo_at_Wild_Animal_Park_San_Diego.jpg?uselang=it

Buffalo

 (Synerus caffer)

As has happened, and is happening, world wide; more American legions, myths, and beliefs, or outright lies have been proven untrue.

1. Contrary to popular and American belief "Buffalo" were never "Home- Home on the Range; and didn’t roam with the deer and the antelope, in that mythical place called" America" and they were never a major food source to any of the indigenous North American peoples— for they, do not, and so far as we know, never did exist in North America; but then neither do antelope, which like buffalo, are an African, or Asian, species. See antelope above.

2. As you can see, there are two general types of Bison in the world; the European and the North American.

3. Obviously then, Bison were not unknown animals to the first European settlers in North America, so there are absolutely no excuses, other than: a paranoiac belief that anything non-American has to be life threatening, pure obstinate stupidity, an irrational desire to create yet another fictitious myth, or a compulsive need to be contrary, for the peoples of the United States to refer to bison as buffalo.

4. The North American animal, Bison Americanis of which there are again two types, the woods (Bison bison athabascae) and the prairie (Bison bison bison) originally inhabited the Great Plains of the United States and Canada in massive herds ranging from Great Slave Lake in Canada's north to Mexico in the south, and from the Rocky Mountains almost to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Wood Bison, found mostly in Canada, migrate from East to West rather than North too South. They are the larger of the two sub-species and are one of the largest species of cattle in the world, surpassed in size only by the massive Asian-gaur, and wild Asian water buffalo, both of which are found mainly in India and Southern Asia; but, bison were never a major food source of the more southerly North American Natives -any more then reindeer, (Another animal which did not truthfully exist in North America. Reindeer have recently been introduced-partly to enable Santa Claus to get around at Christmas time and partly in order to bolster dwindling caribou herds), or musk ox were a major source of food to the Inuit-which is why there were so many -until after the white man introduced the rifle, and more importantly the horse.
No tribe or culture (like the North American native) depending strictly on foot travel, ever in the history of the world counted the larger grazing animals as a major food source, because the hunting and killing of them, plus the handling of the meat, involved more risk and problem than benefit. Also, bison, caribou, and musk ox are migratory; so were not always available.