Excellent Large American Bison Taxidermy Shoulder Mount SW10599

This is one big Bison! At 39” tall and 28” wide, this mount will dominate most rooms like it certainly dominated its herd. The head is slightly lowered, suggesting that it is ready to bear down on whatever may come its way. With a big beard and even bigger and perfectly curved horns, this piece inspires awe. We have rated this piece of taxidermy as Excellent due to its size, large horns and thick coat. It is a great mount for any room with outdoorsy decor.

• Product Rating: Excellent
• 39" tall X 35" deep X 28" wide at the widest point of its horns
  
• Hangs from a single screw by its included hanger
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About the American Bison

Scientific Name: Bison bison

The American bison or simply bison, also commonly known as the American buffalo or simply buffalo, is an American species of bison that once roamed North America in vast herds. Its historical range, by 9000 BCE, is described as the great bison belt, a tract of rich grassland that ran from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico, east to the Atlantic Seaboard (nearly to the Atlantic tidewater in some areas) as far north as New York and south to Georgia and, according to some sources, down to Florida, with sightings in North Carolina near Buffalo Ford on the Catawba River as late as 1750. It nearly became extinct by a combination of commercial hunting and slaughter in the 19th century and introduction of bovine diseases from domestic cattle. With a population in excess of 60 million in the late 18th century, the species was down to 541 animals by 1889. Recovery efforts expanded in the mid-20th century, with a resurgence to roughly 31,000 animals today, largely restricted to a few national parks and reserves. Through multiple reintroductions, the species is now also freely roaming wild in some regions in Yakutia as well as Mexico.

Two subspecies or ecotypes have been described: the plains bison (B. b. bison), smaller in size and with a more rounded hump, and the wood bison (B. b. athabascae)—the larger of the two and having a taller, square hump. Furthermore, the plains bison has been suggested to consist of a northern plains (B. b. montanae) and a southern plains (B. b. bison) subspecies, bringing the total to three. However, this is generally not supported. The wood bison is one of the largest wild species of bovid in the world, surpassed by only the Asian gaur and wild yak. Among extant land animals in North America, the bison is the heaviest and the longest, and the second tallest after the moose.