Are bison and buffalo the same? Well, when settlers first visited the new world and witnessed bison, they thought they looked like the Cape buffalo and water buffalo from other parts of the world, so ...

So, is it “buffalo” or “bison”? We think the answer is “yes ... some experience from early European voyages around the Cape of Africa and experiences in Asia. So, they knew about ...

Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ... but it’s thought early American settlers called bison “buffalo” because they look similar—large, brown, hulking beasts that graze ...