Bison vs. Buffalo: What's the Difference?

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Burly, shaggy bison (Bison bison), the North American hoofed mammals that, for many people, embody the American West, are often referred to as buffalo. But even though they are in the same family group as Old World buffalo species, bison are not closely related to those species, making the common name "buffalo" misleading. Learn more → www.livescienc...
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@ToddWCorey1 3 года назад

The main difference is that bison would never lose 4 straight Superbowls.

@notmyname3681 3 года назад

No Bison ever lost its helmet at a match start, sigh.

@troybaxter Год назад

No, but they do get their asses kicked every year by a bunch of Bulls.

@JamesLaManna-l5x 3 месяца назад

Hysterical

@andymartinez6732 5 лет назад

So the logo for Buffalo Wild Wings is inaccurate?

@songstra 5 лет назад

Berenstein moment... there were buffalo in North America and they were hunted into extinction. There are still bison. The Woolley buffalo was not a bison. Old encyclopedias show the differences in hand drawn pictures. Their horns were different and so were their beards and head shapes.

@TheBooklyBreakdown 4 года назад

@@songstra are you sure?, i dunno

@sirus804 4 года назад

@@songstra No, those were Bison too. People coming over from Europe didn't know what they were but they looked kinda similar to African buffalo and Asian buffalo and while Bison and Buffalo are both Bovines, Bison are not buffalo and the kinds of Bison in North America that went extinct from hunting, were Bison, not buffalo. They named it the wrong thing. So Buffalo Wild Wings and the Buffalo Bills logo both have Bison on them, not buffalo. It'd be like the Detroit Lions having a Tiger as their mascot. Other sports teams made the same mistake of misnaming something. The Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins come to mind.

@Im2Old4ThisShite 4 года назад

@@songstra you are incorrect and spreading misinformation. The ONLY buffalo to ever live on the continent of North America were and are the ones that lived/live in zoo's. 🙄

@harukatakahashi8822 4 года назад

@@songstra but in the logo, that's clearly a bison

@buxeessingh2571 5 лет назад

Native Buffalonian here. I think this would be a great video to play at Buffalo Bisons games. It probably belongs on the city's website too.

@OJSimpsonFitness Год назад

Go bills

@djmajik862 10 месяцев назад

i watched this video then came to a realization all those statues in town are bison statues

@miningflame9847 4 года назад

Believe it or not, I didn't search this up for a school project, I was just curious

@LuisContreras-qp4jz 7 месяцев назад

I’m not gonna lie me too

@squelch6573 Год назад

Wait so in America there’s only bison and not buffalo?

@pirateswiggity5278 2 года назад

I grew up in KS and one of the things I was always taught was that the American buffalo was hunted *completely* to extinction and that all we had left was the bison. A nearly identical relative to the American buffalo. We also regularly got hit with a particularly weird PSA on one of the cartoon networks I watched as a kid. I can’t exactly recall if it stated it directly, but through the visuals it basically implied that if we didn’t cut back on our water usage, we’d inevitably drain the oceans dry and leave whales beached and dehydrated on the sea floor… in KANSAS!!! Where most of our water comes from ground water aquifers… NOT THE FUCKING OCEAN! Never mind the fact that most places, even on the coast (which KS clearly isn’t) don’t tend to use ocean water if they can help it as removing the salinity from it is often more expensive than pumping ground water, or literally any other source of water. Looking back, there was just some of the weirdest propaganda in my childhood.

@GG-vy1oy 2 года назад

They lied. Sad.

@SLHJR0390 11 месяцев назад

They were right … how’s that ogalala aquifers health now ?

@pirateswiggity5278 11 месяцев назад

@@SLHJR0390 In what way were they right? The water usage from the aquifers has no impact on ocean water levels which the animation I’m referring to was implying. I never said they were wrong about the water usage. I’m saying the the imagery of the entire ocean draining if we kept using that much water is outright propagandistic

@SLHJR0390 11 месяцев назад

this gentlemen said its a lie theyd every face any water issues, because they have the aquifer. Well ... thats not a lie, thats the truth. theyve over used the aquifer and polluted their surface and ground water via agriculture. They are on the precipice of a collapsed Ogalala watershed. Funny thing, Oceans are the way rain and weather are generated. Perhaps the notion that the climate change and changing preciptation patterns DO IN FACT HAVE A BEARING ON THE WATERSHED HE IS IN. What an idea huh?@@pirateswiggity5278

@imaspecofdust3913 5 лет назад

One thing they both have in common They're both scary as heck when you tick them off

@dogley1 6 лет назад

So, what type of Buffalo have wings?

@mihai7192 6 лет назад

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@ukiy0324 6 лет назад

Spicy ones

@DanteRiccelli1 5 лет назад

Tats the red bull right

@ketevantakvarelia4823 5 лет назад

Buffalo wild wings

@koltleo 2 года назад

The African ones. Their attitude is very spicy

@DavidLS1 2 года назад

What did the buffalo say to his boy when he went off to school? Bison.

@snowdog03 6 лет назад

Bison Bill.

@wm_9640 3 года назад

Bison Wild Wings.

@koltleo 2 года назад

Fun fact: They were originally called buffalo bisons

@capybara3995 6 лет назад

I never knew there was a difference. Thanks!

@Klondike877 3 года назад

I have read that Samuel De Champlain visited the Nippissing, north of the Huron Lake, and they would have show some bison pelt, which is really possible for the time period, when you know bisons were not only in the far west, and with trade, which they were also known for trading with the western tribes, they would have acquires such pelt, possibly, and Champlain seeing it, would have called it a ''Buffle'' (buffalo, but in french) and because it looked like that to him! I dont know for sure if it originated from the father of new france, but I would imagine that words spreads out after that. And knowing how french settlers and fur traders went far west before the anglos actually went, it would not surprise me at all, that french were for something into this!

@ravenestrella2310 3 года назад

I'm 42 years old, and just found out that what I thought were buffalo for the past four decades are actually bison.

@billybob-ro6qf 2 года назад

Nah don't believe the lies buffalo, bison SAME ANIMAL!

@tims4201 3 года назад

Best way to tell them apart is the ask 'which one skipped leg day?'

@Kaefer1973 2 года назад

I don't think the "european settler used a name they knew" story seems plausible, wouldn't they have called the Bison Wisent after the European Bison if that was the case? Well the Wisent may have been extinct on Britain already, but was a far distant bovine really more well known as the most notable wild continental bovine?

@user-iz1wj7zp5n 4 года назад

wich bison is the one with six legs and can fly

@lekcindr 2 года назад

colorado university are the buffaloes but the animal they use at football games to represent the university looks to be, based on the description in this video, a bison. are they confusing the two and using either the wrong name or wrong live animal (which we shouldn't be doing in the first place)? Seems like they should be the CU Bison.

@biggboii2595 5 лет назад

So, a bison is a buffalo but a buffalo isn't a bison.....?

@koltleo 2 года назад

A buffalo is a buffalo but a bison is a bison

@billybob-ro6qf 2 года назад

@@koltleo both the same animal. Video simply showing 2 types of buffalo(bison) the American Buffalo & the water Buffalo.

@ricardobjj24 7 месяцев назад

Ive always thought the Buffalo Bills were Bison anyway

@warnutztheloser 5 лет назад

Does Bison have predators. I knw Buffalos get eaten By lions

@musicforhours4605 5 лет назад

Wolves

@beehive399 5 лет назад

Wolves during the winter.

@erosgiosalmoni1925 5 лет назад

Grisly Bears wolves and Coyotes...

@markassko6426 5 лет назад

Grizzly bears, black bears, polar bears ( possibly ), mountain lions, wolves, north-eurasian-siberian lynx ( theyre much larger than canadian lynx, and theyre in the top 10 of biggest cats. With eurasian lynx being recorded of having some individuals over 30kg, and east siberian lynx over 40kg, quite big cats known to take down deer and elk ), coyotes, wolverines ( truly fierce, potentially can kill a bison if hes ill ), sport hunting?

@dinosaurworld75 4 года назад

Grizzlies and Wolves prey on Bisons

@CastFromTheHip 6 лет назад

Cool! Great video.

@petergoettler8680 4 года назад

Educational.Thxs.,Merci.

@HighLow_Milo 2 года назад

Bro give me more info! Like knowing what buffalo are more closely related to, if theres anything bison are related to. Gimme scientific names! Families, genuses, orders! Are bison all alone on their branch of the tree of life?

@deontewatkins1990 4 года назад

Who else is still confused as to what the difference is between a Bison and Buffalo?

@KingsRight 27 дней назад

buffalo looks like a Steer/cow and not very fluffy. short hair like a cow.

@avalonjustin 3 месяца назад

Ahh, they are very different. Thank you for the video!

@nyquilsleepah 2 года назад

School House Rock calls them Buffalo, so i shall do the same (plus i always knew them as Buffalo) Tomato Tomato 😗

@hanzohattori9576 11 месяцев назад

"large cattle like species". Funny thing is that cattle is itself a separate species than bison and buffalo but like bison and buffalo cattle males are called bulls and females are called cows.

@dedrakuhn6103 6 месяцев назад

When the bison fought the bull in Warez Mexico is a wonderful video to google

@matthewdavid9039 11 месяцев назад

Still calling them Buffalo is refusing to admit you were wrong still, after hundreds of years.

@RB01138 17 дней назад

That's not how language works. If most people use the terms interchangeably, then they're both correct. This happens all the time. Also, Buffalo as a descriptive term for the North American animal predates bison by about 70 years. Also, Bison comes from 1st century Latin, and it referred to wild ox, otherwise known as Auroch's, an animal that still existed when Samuel Champlain first saw Buffalo in the 1620's.

@bigant2552 3 года назад

Thanks so much for the video.

@serlymarton 4 года назад

Thank you for this clarifying!

@yerpster Год назад

I hate how people always confuse the two. Idk why but it infuriates me

@RB01138 17 дней назад

I don't know why either considering both terms are equally valid. Both words are of European origin, predate first contact with North America, and both have been used to describe multiple animals, hundreds of years before contact. Both terms have also been used interchangeably for over 400 years, so you're choosing to be a pendant, which is sad enough on its own, but it's even sadder because you aren't even correct.

@itzmebytememaw 9 месяцев назад

In North America we use the name Bison or Buffalo for the same animal. The name is used based on geographical orientation. North Americans do not refer the Cape Buffalo or Water Buffalo to be the same animal as a Buffalo. Much the same as Americans have Caribou and in Europe they are called Reindeer. Christians have God, Muslims have Ala. ''''''''But world wide on social media we have Karens.

@johnhendricks8140 5 лет назад

So if I'm in America and the menu says buffalo burger I'm more than likely eating a bison burger.

@AliceYobby 3 года назад

And all thanks to tbs founder Ted turner. Lol

@RoyalKnightVIII 4 года назад

They're closer to the Wisent, which is probably where the Greco Latin Bison came from

@leighparker9109 5 лет назад

Really enjoyed this.

@ginawelch6532 3 года назад

I talked about Bisons but I never saw one at the zoo before I went to Los Angeles Zoo I want to go to the San Diego Zoo this summer hopefully I go pretty soon

@jurijnabukov9123 5 лет назад

i not learn nothing from this video. Where is weight ? Power size of body ?

@andrasiboti 5 лет назад

Could you do a video, about Moose vs Eurasian Elk: What's the difference? It would fix my identity crisis. Thanks!

@michaelp.4890 5 лет назад

Oh, I think the confusion exists because in Russia they call the Moose "Elk" and the Elk otherwise. I think "Wapiti" or just deer.

@yourboyabel8365 4 года назад

Bison wild wings

@fikarsgroupie611 4 года назад

Bison and Buffalo just like elephants and mammoth

@Swapp_Shop 2 года назад

Wow... I thought the American Buffalo and Bison were different animals. I definitely thought yhe Buffalo was extinct. I can't be to only one right? 😅

@billybob-ro6qf 2 года назад

Buffalo Bison different names same animal. Video showing water Buffalo which are different than Buffalo we have in America.

@towhidyr 4 года назад

Can you buy a few months old buffaloes?

@misterindependent7994 3 года назад

I've been calling bison some buffalo for years I mean they pretty much are the same thing. The differences are fairly subtle. I'll make it a point to call them bison from now on and correct anybody who calls them Buffalo cuz I'm so smart now.

@luisvaca1250 3 года назад

Dont listen to them natives have always known them as buffalo bison is a white word

@plumli4947 3 года назад

@@luisvaca1250 Actually Buffalo is a Portugese word for an African animal, when Europeans started coming to the Americas they were already familiar with the word Buffalo and just used it to refer to any big cow-like animal that was not a cow. The Ojibwe for example call Bisons "Mashkodebizhiki" and the Algonquin call them "pijakì".

@SaxandRelax 4 года назад

There’s a school near me that is called buffalo but the mascot is a bison

@koltleo 2 года назад

Complain the to school and say they are wrong and should change the name or logo to fit the name

@kfl611 3 года назад

I often wondered if they were of the same type of species and could interbreed. I know they can cross breed yaks with other animals.

@paulinatopor7856 2 года назад

I don’t believe so. But American Bison can be interbred with European Bison. That’s actually a plan some conversationalists have developed in Europe, as the European Bison is nearly extinct.

@seasons0123 11 месяцев назад

In our state, the Bison have been reintroduced in parks and reserves to bring up the population but they are also breeding them so eventually there will be nothing but Bison DNA in them.

@tracykingston9668 2 месяца назад

A bison mating with cattle produces a beefalo . Used to be ground beefalo in some grocery stores here in the past.

@eugeneyang6634 5 лет назад

Bisons live in the American content and buffalos lives in Africa or Europe. Both have different appearances as well.

@markassko6426 5 лет назад

Actually bisons live in both america, and eurasia, buffalo love in africa and southern asia

@indyreno2933 3 года назад

Additionally bison and buffalo are also part of entirely different subtribes within the tribe Bovini, bison are in the subtribe Bovina whilst buffalo belong to Bubalina.

@koltleo 2 года назад

There is also another bison species called the European bison.

@user-sj5rb7dc3c 3 года назад

Short and effective love it

@rickygreen5737 3 месяца назад

if the american bison was supposedly always called a bison then why were the indians called buffalo hunters? did we change the name to bison over the years and africa didnt need to because they always owned their country? im a bit confused as to why the indians hunted buffalo or were called buffalo hunters in O.G america but apparently they were really hunting bison lol. maybe we lost translation of what the indians were really saying?

@hankhooper1637 3 месяца назад

I don't think they were always called "bison." Go watch any western and they are called buffalo. This feels like a correction that ignores the history of the word usage. In one sense, buffalo should be fine because usage often dictates what is "correct."

@KingsRight 27 дней назад

@@hankhooper1637 because the movies try to accurately show how white man often mistakenly called them buffalo back then, so that's why that's the word they rolled with. If they said "bison" in the movie, they would be factually correct but not historically accurate in the ignorance of whites as they discovered america and made up words as they went along.

@kylemaysmister5957 2 года назад

So what's a Tatanka?

@koltleo 2 года назад

Another word for bison. I believe that’s what the natives called bison

@1xrxaxrxex174 6 лет назад

people that can’t see different between a buffalo and a Bison is BLIND or need some weed

@koltleo 2 года назад

Nah people who think they are the same are high on weed

@jefffetzer9985 3 года назад

Indricotherium ? Dino sized mammal 18 tons

@yolandajohnson1418 4 года назад

I dont mind adding my name, but don't like recurring phone calls!

@rbdahri 2 года назад

I made bison vs buffalo comparison must watch

@n00n1n Год назад

Call it a Bufalison

@areguapiri 3 года назад

There are no buffalo in America.

@koltleo 2 года назад

There are, in zoos

@aspieotaku3580 4 года назад

A bison will own a buffalo in a fight although called buffalo.

@brayonthat8620 3 года назад

FINALLY SOMEONE KNOWS

@newman6434 5 лет назад

Once the buffalo roamed free.

@koltleo 2 года назад

They’ve always roamed free in Africa because no one dared to domesticate them

@yolandajohnson1418 4 года назад

Add my name but do not call

@ObviousSchism 2 года назад

What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison? You can't wash your hands in a buffalo.

@alesh2275 3 года назад

A name is a name.

@nsmee554 4 года назад

As any school kid knows, the difference between a buffalo and a bison. You can't wash your hands in a buffalo.

@nicholefieldbutch321 3 года назад

coyotes get mistaken for wolves

@billybob-ro6qf 2 года назад

yeap they do look similar especially from a distance, but look close enough you can easily spot the differences. Coyotes always hunt alone & usually hunt small prey like rabbits or mice.

@nicholasbiddle7893 3 года назад

If you would have asked me before I watched this I would have said the reverse

@kaosaeteurn3813 3 года назад

They both taste great.

@StreetPeter 5 лет назад

Is good to see Cenk uygur in his natural habitat.

@barbaraduggan631 3 года назад

TAKANKA .. ln our language is buffalo ... dont make it so confusing ...God ... We know what it means ... Dakota Sioux ndn

@jonothanosborne9715 5 лет назад

Im with bison bacause there power and size

@luisvaca1250 3 года назад

B.S the whites changed the names so people can forget native american culture its always been tatanka which translates to buffalo

@KingsRight 27 дней назад

no. it translates to bison

@chadsharpe7213 2 года назад

I know the difference and still know the difference today. And if anyone wants to argue with you ? Tell tell to grow a beard and walk away. 🤔

@555CHAM 5 лет назад

Who wins??? Oh god who WINS????

@jonothanosborne9715 5 лет назад

I with bison because their power

@swostikjangam3242 5 лет назад

🐃

@lucasm8602 5 лет назад

Bison win.

@nuca9087 4 года назад

who came from the avatar?

@billybob-ro6qf 2 года назад

NONSENSE they ALL BUFFALO. Comparing Water Buffalo to land Buffalo

@Fx_Explains 6 лет назад

who else thought this would be a fight video. a fight to death 😐

@carloshernandez-ux6tm 9 месяцев назад

BISON IS ENGLISH & BUFFALO CANADIAN.

@tonydean6684 4 года назад

Me like Mindy Weisberger.

@sammyflynn4985 6 лет назад

can i be your friend

@moroccanfreethinker2739 5 лет назад

Wierdo

@creetan9997 5 лет назад

@@moroccanfreethinker2739 Can I take you out on a date?

@moroccanfreethinker2739 5 лет назад

@@creetan9997 Wierdo N2

@creetan9997 5 лет назад

@@moroccanfreethinker2739 It's a yes or no question.

@carloshernandez-ux6tm 9 месяцев назад

BISONS ENGLISH & BUFFALOS CANDIAN.

@kheya7998 6 лет назад

No natives call them bison

@tyy745 5 лет назад

@VF1100rider lmao

@KingsRight 27 дней назад

because white americans mistakenly called bison buffalo and taught the wrong english word to the native americans.. thus the natives have been using the wrong word all of these years. tatanka really means bison. but white man taught them otherwise.

@CarlyDayDay 6 лет назад

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

@brentdaglish4358 2 года назад

Buffalo was a name give them by the French hunters in the 1600's. These creatures were the Native Americans long before any white man gave them a name. Lakota call them 'pte' but these days when they refer to them they use the term buffalo. If they use the term buffalo... that's good enough for me. I don't need a white woman explaining the Lakota are wrong..

@KingsRight 27 дней назад

it's probably more like they heard a white person mistakenly call them buffalo and the red skin was just repeating what he heard to communicate in the white man's language the animal he meant, only so the white man could understand. They say "tatanka" and then point to a Bison. but then the white man mistakenly tells them that the word for that is buffalo. The native american didn't know any better and just repeats back what he heard.

@Fx_Explains 6 лет назад

my bison have an arrow on its head. oh and it can fly

@forwardplans8168 4 года назад

Extremely poor research on this subject. The Europeans knew about the Wisent before discovering North America, there's also the translation between French and Nordic terminology.