Bison Stock Photo

BISON (Lat. Bison BONASUS, Eng. Wisent, Buffalo, Bison, Ger. Wisent) - steers (Bovinae) subfamily Bovid mammal. Close to the American bison, with readily cross. Common in Europe. Bison - the largest current European wild beast. Especially the massive males. Bison short trunk, the front part of the high ridge. Large, heavy, panarinta, with a broad forehead head. Eyes small. Ears are short, wide, similar to a cow, a more hairy. Bare foot end. The coat is thick and rough, gray-brown, dark winter, summer bright. How much hair curling. On top of the neck grows short mane, then muzzle - a beard. Due to the very cliffs of the chest and the head of bison look even more massive, and it looks brutal. The tail ends of longer hair whisk. Adult males begin to molt first, in January, sometimes at the end of December females - in a month. Birthing sheds from February, March. Moulting duration of 130-250 days. Longest moulting females, the shortest - the young. Bison male body length of about 3 m and more, the height of the belt of up to 2 m, the posterior part of the body height of 1.6 m, tail length of 0.85 m. Large male can weigh up to tons, but the average Lithuanian bison swelling mass of about 500 kg. Pronounced sexual dimorphism: females per male around 30% lighter, smaller body size and less covered with hair. Lithuanian bison more massive than sour, it's lighter, the hair is straight and longer.