European bison

phylum	Chordata	The European bison, also known as wisent or the European wood bison, is a Eurasian species of bison. It is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison. European bison were hunted to extinction in the wild, with the last wild animals being shot in the Białowieża Forest (on the Poland-Belarus border) in 1919 and in the North-Western Caucasus in 1927, but have since been reintroduced from captivity into several countries in Europe, all descendants of the Białowieża or lowland European bison. They are now forest-dwelling. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Ruminantia
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Artiodactyla
family	Bovidae
genus	Bison
species	B. bonasus

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