Thankfully, the big guy was on the move and didn’t really have any interest in me. The snow we received here on the Colorado Front Range last weekend didn’t amount to much so I didn’t get the ‘snowy bison’ pics I was hoping for. As always though, it was fun to see them.
It used to be we called these ‘buffalo’ but that actually was incorrect. While they are part of the same family that includes the European and African buffalo, the Bison is its own, distinct species. It is believed they were called buffalo by early North American explorers due to their resemblance to the Old-World species. Native Americans call them Tatanka, a Lakota word that translated means “bull buffalo.”
