The American Bison: From Millions to Near Extinction

This video is about American Bison, also known as the Buffalo. At one point the American Bison s population was well in the millions but for a variety of reason which is discussed in this video, their population dropped to less than 1000. Social Media ------------------------ Map Shop - http://zacksmapshop.com/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/zackfleming Instagram - http://instagram.com/thegeographygeek Sources ------ http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170406-bison-had-survived-for-2-million-years-until-humans-arrived https://www.futurity.org/native-americans-fire-bison-hunts/ https://americanwildhorsecampaign.org/history-americas-wild-horses https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/about-the-program/myths-and-facts https://www.tsln.com/news/a-unique-study-of-bison-populations/ https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/16/science/historians-revisit-slaughter-on-the-plains.html https://history.msu.edu/hst321/files/2010/07/smits-on-bison.pdf https://www.mtpr.org/post/hornaday-bison-killing-buffalo-order-save-them https://www.businessinsider.com/skulls-photo-american-bison-extinction-history-2016-4 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/where-the-buffalo-no-longer-roamed-3067904/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1886193.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/114/13/3457 Books ----- “The American Serengeti” by Dan Flores “The Extermination of the American Bison” by William T. Hornaday