Long-Horned Bison

Long-Horned Bison
Classification
Name	Bison latifrons
Name Meaning	Wild Ox wide forehead
Species	Prehistoric Bison
Family	Bovidae
Diet	Herbivore
Physiology
Description	A large species of Bison with long horns
Attributes	Large size; long horns; thick fur coat, colossal hump on shoulders, poor eyesight, social, aggressive when cornered
Height	8.2 ft.
Length	15.6 ft
Weight	1,250 kg (2,760 lb)
Biography
Era	Late Pleistocene
Time	200 to 10 TYA
Discovered	1802
Locations	North America

Bison latifrons, also known as the giant bison or long-horned bison, is a species of bison that lived in North America during the Pleistocene epoch ranging from Alaska to Mexico. It was the largest and heaviest bovid ever to live in North America. It thrived in North America for about 200,000 years, but became extinct 10,000 years ago, at the beginning of the last glacial maximum.

In the Series 3 finale "Mammoth's Undertaking Journey II: The Eternal Frontier", a herd of a dozen Long-Horned Bison were brought to the park from Late Pleistocene North America, 11,000 years ago. They reside in the Mammoth Tundra Enclosure with other ice age animals including the Woolly Mammoth.

Facts

Physical Attributes

Long-Horned Bison skeleton

Trivia

• Long-Horned Bison died out long before 11,000 years ago, but in the series they are shown to live during the time when humans arrived in North America.