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PLAINS BISON

?Plains Bison
Conservation status: Lower risk
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Bison
Species: B. bison
Subspecies: B. bison bison
Trinomial name
Bison bison bison
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Plains Bison is one of two subspecies of the American bison.

In 2006 plains bison from Elk Island National Park in Alberta were released into Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan. This marks the first time plains bison have wandered the short-grass prairies of Canada since their near-extinction at the turn of the 20th century.

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