4636 x 4144 px | 39,3 x 35,1 cm | 15,5 x 13,8 inches | 300dpi
Ubicazione:
Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands. Scotland. United Kingdom.
Altre informazioni:
The Wisent or European Bison (Bison bonasus) (IPA: [vizənt]) is a bison species and the heaviest land animal in Europe. A typical wisent is about 2.9 m long and 1.8–2 m tall, and weighs 300 to 1000 kg. It is typically lankier and less massive than the related American bison (B. bison), and has shorter hair on the neck, head, and forequarters. Wisents are forest-dwelling. They have few predators with only scattered reports from the 1800s of wolf and bear predation. Wisents were first scientifically described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. Some later descriptions treat the wisent as conspecific with the American bison. It is not to be confused with the aurochs. The species is now endangered. In the past they were commonly killed to produce hides and drinking horns especially in the middle ages. there are no remaining pure Caucasus stock-- they were intermixed with lowland bison and, in some cases, the American bison (Bison bison) before they went extinct in the wild.
