Assertion: american bison | /r/HasProperty | numerous
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text: It may fairly be considered, however, that the specimens taken by the Smithsonian expedition were in every way more perfect representatives of the species than have been usually taken in times past, for the simple reason that on account of the muscle they had developed in the numerous chases they had survived, and the total absence of the fat which once formed such a prominent feature of the animal, they were of finer form, more active habit, and keener intelligence than buffaloes possessed when they were so numerous.
text: When buffaloes were numerous, and not required to do any great amount of running in order to exist, they were, in the autumn months, very fat.