The first bison calf of the year was born at Tallgrass Prairie Preserve this week, marking a joyous start to spring in an otherwise difficult time. Harvey Payne, a longtime lover and director emeritus ...

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The instincts of a bison cow are to concentrate its efforts on raising just one calf, Williams said. “The mother rejected her,” he said. “It was the natural thing for it to do. They almost always ...

Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Community members who like to keep an eye on the South Park bison herd are raising concern about bison calf stillbirths and miscarriages. KDKA-TV has learned this has happened a ...

A late arriving bison calf surprised staff Aug. 12 at Minneopa State Park, the second straight year of a late birth. Last October, the same cow birthed a calf at the popular Blue Earth County bison ...

Patience and timing pays off when hoping to catch a glimpse of bison calves born this spring at Minneopa State Park. Carol Bator of Austin proved it so. Bator arrived late Friday evening, prior to the ...

Yellowstone National Park officials killed a baby bison because its herd rejected the animal after an unidentified man picked it up. The calf had been separated from its mother in the park’s Lamar ...

Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s ...

Centuries ago, herds of bison roamed the Great Plains, numbering in the tens of millions. One of the most populous mammal species in North America, enormous herds of the animals grazed and migrated ...