Bison is also known as the American Buffalo. Only two of these species still exist: the American bison (B. bison) and the European bison, or wisent (B. bonasus).
In American Western culture, the bison is commonly referred to as "buffalo"; however, this is a misnomer: though both bison and buffalo belong to the Bovidae family, the term "buffalo" properly applies only to the Asian water buffalo and African buffalo.
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