Appa, born May 26, is the first Bison birth at the Montgomery Zoo. His mom, Sakari, 11, was brought to the zoo in 2022 in hopes that she would breed with, Tank, 22. “We are excited to have a ...

The birth of the first bison conceived on the site of a groundbreaking rewilding scheme has been announced. This takes the number of animals in the herd near Canterbury, Kent, to six. A calf born ...

For 17 years Rick Wallen was the team leader of Yellowstone National Park’s bison ecology program. He retired six years ago ...

As a precaution, cattle and bison are kept from interacting for at least 45 days. Transmission occurs mainly through direct contact with birthing matter, but state and federal officials have ...

Her surprise birth was discovered in September 2022 by head bison ranger Tom Gibbs, shortly after two young females had arrived from Ireland along with an older matriarch from Scotland.

Bison breed in August and September, during which dominant males maintain a small “harem “of females for mating. A female's gestation period lasts 285 to 300 days, after which she gives birth to one ...