bison

Filled with full-color photographs and accessible text, early readers will be fascinated by the lives and habits of a bison herd. Facts and figures will captivate even the most reluctant of readers, as they discover where bison live, what they eat, and the special term for a female bison in this exciting book.

Young readers will explore life as a Native American and learn what it means to live in America today. Also included are beautiful photographs and clear, fun text.

Details the characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the American bison.

Recounts scientist, journalist, and conservationist George Bird Grinnell's efforts to protect a herd of wild American buffalo in the last three decades of the nineteenth century.

A study of the American bison, examining their relationships and their systems of movement, digestion, and body temperature maintenance; tracing the lineage of the bison, especially in North America; discussing the bison habitat and the other creatures that once shared the central grassland; and considering the history of hunting and the near extinction of the bison.

Provides an introduction to the life cycle, physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of a plains bison.

Describes the life of American bison on the National Bison Range in Montana and in other parks and preserves, with an emphasis on how humans must carefully manage each herd for its own good.

Presents an introduction to Bison, in simple text with illustrations, providing information on their physical characteristics, habitat, life cycle, and behavior.

After hearing the legend retold by the tribe's oldest member, Little Wolf hopes to someday witness the beginning of the buffaloes at the sacred lake.

A Comanche grandmother and her grandson wait for the arrival of a herd of buffalo in this story based on the efforts of the American Bison Society to reintroduce bison to Oklahoma.