Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aren't they DWARF bison? The real bison died out at the end of the ice age either through over-hunting by the new-fangled humans or by climate change or both. Only the LITTLE ones survived to be later hunted, almost to extinction, by the new interlopers and the old interlopers who were paid well to eradicate them by the new guys. (Whatever DID happen to all those buffalo robes anyway?) Truly, the Americas had some large mammals that didn't survive the transition from the Ice Age. One of the last to go were giant ground sloths, I think. Adam On 9/30/05, Eric <ericm@pobox.com> wrote: > Neal: > > >BTW the American pronghorne antelope is not really an antelope either. > > Next thing you're gonna try to tell us is that the bison aren't really > buffalo, either. :) > > > -- > Eric > http://canid.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >