{"id":3152,"date":"2019-04-27T23:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T03:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2019-04-27T23:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T03:36:59","slug":"european-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2019\/04\/27\/european-bison\/","title":{"rendered":"European Bison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European bison is a bovine animal similar to the <a href=\"\/2015\/07\/29\/american-bison\/\" title=\"American Bison\">American bison<\/a> but from the Eurasian continent.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_3153\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3153\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_01.jpg\" alt=\"European Bison\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3153\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_01.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_01-300x158.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_01-768x403.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_01-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">European Bison (<em>Bison bonasus<\/em>), <a href=\"\/places\/hungary\/szarvas\/szarvas-animal-park\/\" title=\"K\u00f6r\u00f6s Valley Visitor Center and Animal Park\">Szarvas Animal Park<\/a>.<br \/><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>European bisons, according to DNA analysis, carry aurochs genes, so it is likely that their ancestors interbred.<\/p>\n<p>At one point the European bison has been hunted to extinction, but enough live specimens remained in captivity that it is was possible to reintroduce them to the wild.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_02.jpg\" alt=\"European Bison\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3154\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_02.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_02-300x158.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_02-768x403.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/European-Bison_02-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>While European bison numbers are up in the wild, and the species is no longer considered to be endangered, the species has lost a significant part of its genetic diversity, which can hurt them on the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Still the story of the European bison appears to be one of the few success stories, when humans managed, in the last minute, to reverse the damage they have done.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_bison\" title=\"European bison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European bison<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/animaldiversity.org\/accounts\/Bison_bonasus\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ADW: Bison bonasus: INFORMATION\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bison bonasus<\/a> on ADW.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nature.org\/science\/2017\/08\/22\/remarkable-story-how-bison-returned-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Remarkable Story of How the Bison Returned to Europe \u2013 Cool Green Science\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Remarkable Story of How the Bison Returned to Europe<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bison-ebcc.eu\/european-bison\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"EUROPEAN BISON \u2013 EUROPEAN BISON CONSERVATION CENTER\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European Bison<\/a> \u2013 European Bison Conservation Center.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European bison is a bovine animal similar to the American bison but from the Eurasian 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