page_title: List of mammals of Wyoming
section_title: American bison
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Wyoming / Large and medium sized mammals / American bison
caption_attribution_description: Photo taken in the Yellowstone area.
context_page_description: There are at least 18 large mammal and 103 small mammal species known to occur in Wyoming.
  Species are listed by common name, scientific name, typical habitat and occurrence. The common and scientific names come from the American Society of Mammalogists' Wyoming Mammal List.
context_section_description: Order: Artiodactyla, Family: Bovidae
  Occurrence: Eastside parklands and prairies
  The American bison (Bison bison) is a North American species of bison, also commonly known as the American buffalo. These bison once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds; their range roughly formed a triangle between the Great Bear Lake in Canada's far northwest, south to the Mexican states of Durango and Nuevo León, and east along the western boundary of the Appalachian Mountains. Today these bison are much fewer in number, and travel only in small herds.
caption: Bison
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