Yes, There Are Wild Bison In Florida, Paynes Prairie State Park
by Felix Lai
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Yes, There Are Wild Bison In Florida, Paynes Prairie State Park
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Felix Lai
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Many people do not know there are wild bison in Florida. There are couple of small herd of wild bison in Paynes Prairie State Park. They are wild because they are not fed by human beings but survive on the bounty of the prairie!
Bison are large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae. Two extant and six extinct species are recognised. Of the six extinct species, five went extinct in the Quaternary extinction event. Bison palaeosinensis evolved in the Early Pleistocene in South Asia, and was the evolutionary ancestor of B. priscus, which was the ancestor of all other Bison species. From 2 MYA to 6,000 BCE, steppe bison ranged across the mammoth steppe, inhabiting Europe and northern Asia with B. schoetensacki, and North America with B. antiquus, B. latifrons, and B. occidentalis. The last species to go extinct, B. occidentalis, was succeeded at 3,000 BCE by B. bison.
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January 23rd, 2021
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