Feeding Buffalo

[musketman]

I took my kids to the petting zoo today at Jamestown, PA (Deer Creek Park)

They Have two baby bisons there, about the size of a great dane in height... (looked much like the ones imaged below)

They are sooooooooooo cute with their orange hair and their little buffalo noses... :thumbsup:

We got to hand feed them, hungry little critters they be...

I had more fun than the kids, it was a good time for all... :haha:

 

[atr]

If you were 6 feet tall and standing beside a buffalo at it's shoulders , could you see over it ? I've never seen one except in pictures so i don't really know how big they are .

 

[musketman]

If you were 6 feet tall and standing beside a buffalo at it's shoulders , could you see over it ?

The average adult bison is huge, Some stand six feet at the shoulder and weigh as much as a ton. (the bison's shoulder "hump" is above it's head)

Since I'm only 5' 7.6" in height, it towered over me...

 

[bulletman]

I have a friend that has 2 of them, standing next to them , you could see over them, but you wont be standing there long, they are nice enough, but you get an uneasy feeling...

 

Bison, like almost everything else, vary in size. The males are larger than the females by more than a foot at the shoulders. Females will go better than 1000 lbs. with the males sometimes pushing a ton.

Modern bison are puney compared to the version that the first palio-hunters followed onto this continent. The Big Horned Bison of the ice age had a spread of six feet from horn tip to horn tip. They were only slightly smaller than a full sized PU truck.

How would you like to try killing one of those fellas with a sharp rock tied to a stick?

 

[musketman]

How would you like to try killing one of those fellas with a sharp rock tied to a stick?

Pass... :haha:

Still, the adults were an impressive site to behold, just a few feet away too...

It's beyond me how Native-Americans charged into a mile-wide herd and shot buffs at point blank range...

 

[bulletman]

I betcha a Palestinian could kill one with a rock by golly.