The first Saturday of November this year arrives on November 1st. The largest land mammal in North America was designated became the National Mammal of the United States in 2016. Many things can be celebrated on Nov. 1 and this year on of them is National Bison Day.
Probably very few adults have lived without had some opportunity to have experienced live North American Buffalo at some location. Long before Europeans came to this continent, buffalo were among the symbolic animals of the Lakota and other native societies living on this land.
Everything has an historic and present-day existence in the world. North America buffalo ancestors crossed the land bridge from Asia hundreds of thousands of years ago. Its species spread over time to almost all regions of the continent and became an integral part of varied ecosystems.
