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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🦬American bison

Bison bison (Linnaeus, 1758)

Az amerikai bölény (Bison bison) az emlősök (Mammalia) osztályának párosujjú patások (Artiodactyla) rendjébe, ezen belül a tülkösszarvúak (Bovidae) családjába és a tulokformák (Bovinae) alcsaládjába tartozó faj. Nemének a típusfaja. Az európai bölénnyel (Bison bonasus) annyira közeli rokonok, hogy egymás között kereszteződhetnek, és az így létrejövő hibrid utódok is képesek tovább szaporodni. Ez alapján egyes kutatók egyetlen faj alfajainak tekintik őket.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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152
Photos
6
Measurements
15
vs you
≈ 10× your weight
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
625 kg
Body length
2.9 m
Shoulder height
1.66 m
Top speed
52 km/h
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
33 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the American bison

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
625 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 630 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
2.9 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Shoulder height
1.66 maverage1.54–1.76 m · range across sexes
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.

By sex

  • Male1.76 mMeagher 1986, Mammalian Species 266, p.1Value is the midpoint of the published range.
  • Female1.54 mMeagher 1986, Mammalian Species 266, p.1Value is the midpoint of the published range.
Top speed
52 km/h
Details ↓

Sprint over a short distance, not a sustained pace. Compilations give 52.0 and 54.43 km/h.

Source: Christiansen 2002, Zool J Linn Soc 136:685 and Bejan & Marden 2006, J Exp Biol 209:238; compiled in Hirt et al. 2017, Nat Ecol Evol 1:1116, Supplementary Data · see citation

Brain mass
334 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
33 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 34 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
12 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.5 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
274 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 274 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
47 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.15 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
625 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for American bison yet: bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyBovidae
  6. ›genusBison
  7. ›speciesBison bison
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. familyBovidae
  4. subfamilyBovinae
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderRuminantia
  13. infraorderPecora
  14. familyBovidae
  15. subfamilyBovinae
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More about the American bison

Closest relative on this site
🐃 Domestic yak — last shared an ancestor ≈ 2.0 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Amerikanischer Bison (de), Bison bison (es), Bison d'Amérique (fr), bizon amerykański (pl), 北美野牛 (zh), amerikai bölény (hu) … and 27 more languages
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Bison bison.The largest mammal in North America, an adult male bison can weigh 2,000 pounds! Females are smaller, weighing no more than 1,000 pounds.Photo by Tina Shaw/USFWS.
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