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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 185217, member: 55&quot;]To be precise, the animal commonly called &quot;buffalo&quot; in the US is technically the &quot;American bison.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Buffalo&quot; has become an accepted usage however.</p><p><br /></p><p>As with many other bovines, a male bison is called a bull, and a female bison is called a cow. So there are buffalo cows, or cow bison, whatever you want to call them.....and buffalo calves too of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Origin of the term: &quot;In the seventeenth century, French explorers in North America referred to the new species they encountered as &quot;les boeufs&quot;, meaning oxen or beeves. The English, arriving later, changed the pronunciation to &quot;la buff&quot;. The name grew distorted as &quot;buffle&quot;, &quot;buffler&quot;, &quot;buffillo&quot;, and, eventually, &quot;buffalo&quot;.&quot; (from <a href="http://www.bisoncentral.com/products/american-buffalo-transition-0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bisoncentral.com/products/american-buffalo-transition-0" rel="nofollow">The American Buffalo in Transition</a>, by J. Albert Rorabacher.))</p><p><br /></p><p>So unless I am mistaken, this is a bull bison, or a buffalo bull.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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