Bison grazing The American bison is a grazer. Its diet is made up of mostly grasses and sedges. It will occasionally eat berries and lichen. In winter, the bison uses its head and hooves to move snow off the vegetation. read more
The European bison arose from the steppe bison, without fossil evidence of other ancestral species between the steppe bison and the European bison, though the European bison might have arisen from the lineage that led to American bison if that lineage backcrossed with the steppe bison. read more
Bison do not have many enemies. Sometimes wolves and bear eat calves. They also eat sick bison. read more
The American “buffalo” is more correctly called a bison. True buffalo live in African and Asia, and they look very different from bison, which are shaggy and have a pronounced hump on their backs. read more