What's the difference between bison and buffalo?

Bison


Definition:

  • (n.) The aurochs or European bison.
  • (n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Omasal contents were collected from slaughtered cattle (n = 54), bison (n = 15), and sheep (n = 40) to determine numbers and generic distribution of ciliated protozoa.
  • (2) Bovine herpesvirus-4 is not strictly species-specific: infection was proved in American bison (Bison bison), African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), sheep and probably cat, because feline herpesvirus-2 is in fact a BHV-4 strain.
  • (3) Thirty bison possessed a type B protozoan population, characterized by Epidinium sp., Eudiplodinium maggii, and Eudiplodinium bovis.
  • (4) Male bison were more ataxic, often observed in sternal or lateral recumbency, less conscious, and were slower to respond than females or controls.
  • (5) The described coccidial species, common to cattle, have not been reported previosuly from American bison, (Bison bison).
  • (6) Tuberculin skin test responses were observed in 2 of 6 calves at 9 and 11 months after pen contact with M bovis-exposed bison (group 1).
  • (7) Bison harbored higher (P less than 0.02) numbers of Dasytricha spp., Eudiplodinium maggii, Eudiplodinium bursa, and Epidinium spp.
  • (8) Two types of neurons were distinguished in nucleus olivaris inferior of the European bison.
  • (9) The farmer told me he'd had bison here as well, and other creatures of the prairies and steppes.
  • (10) Differential white blood cell counts for the white-tailed deer were markedly different from those of the pronghorn and bison.
  • (11) Cattle, bison, and elk serum samples were treated with 0.2 M-mercaptoethanol before examination in MAT.
  • (12) The accuracy of pregnancy diagnosis was determined among 18 bison cows, in approximately the third month of gestation, by means of urinary pregnanediol-3 delta-glucuronide (PdG), urinary estrone conjugates (E1C), and fecal total estrogens (TE).
  • (13) More data is needed from other bison herds in this country to better describe the range of normal variation in individuals, population and age groups of B. bison.
  • (14) Card agglutination and complement-fixation tests on all bison serums were negative.
  • (15) Sexually mature bison (Bison bison) cows were tested for both pregnancy and ovulation by means of urinary steroid metabolites and fecal steroids.
  • (16) Korean cattle (Hamhung, Pyongyang, Chinju Suwon, and Kwangju), Mongolian cattle, Hainan Tao cattle, northeastern Chinese cattle (Shuangliao, Shenyang, Tongliao, Lüta, and Chilin), Astatic Water Buffalo, Yak, Bos Banteng, American Bison, and Holstein-Friesian.
  • (17) Pathogenesis of brucellosis in bison was studied in an additional group of six pregnant bison which were challenged with 1 x 10(7) CFU of B. abortus strain 2308.
  • (18) On the "winter harvest-themed menu" at the White House: First course Brussels sprouts, applewood smoked bacon Second course Spring garden lettuces, shallot dressing, shaved breakfast radish, cucumbers and avocados Main course Bison wellington, a red wine reduction, French beans, cipollini onions Dessert Warm meyer lemon steamed pudding with Idaho huckleberry sauce and newtown pippin apples American wines
  • (19) Serologic and hematologic standards for bison are needed to detect disease in transported animals as well as within herds.
  • (20) The level for uninfected bison was near the upper limit of normal for cattle.

Buffalo


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.
  • (n.) A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.
  • (n.) Any species of wild ox.
  • (n.) The bison of North America.
  • (n.) A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
  • (n.) The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aryl hydrocarbon (benzo(a)pyrene) hydroxylase is present and inducible in Buffalo rat liver cells in culture.
  • (2) Estimated daily intakes of metabolizable energy by buffaloes on moderate, high, and very high intake treatments were 31.9, 45.8, and 50.6 Mcal, respectively.
  • (3) The X chromosomes contained appreciable amounts of centromeric heterochromatin only in the two buffaloes.
  • (4) We have previously reported that in culture, rabbit serum inhibits the growth of the epithelial cell line from Buffalo rat liver (BRL) lower than that of the tumorigenic one transformed by Rous sarcoma virus (RSV-BRL).
  • (5) Forty-one hearing foreign students were tested in the fall of 1989 at the English Language Institute at SUNY Buffalo.
  • (6) Total tooth length was measured in the first lower molar of two short-faced strains of rats (Sprague-Dawley and Buffalo) and two long-faced strains (BN and GRL).
  • (7) One hundred newborn swamp buffalo calves (Bubalis bubalis) from three villages in North-East Thailand were divided equally into treatment and control groups.
  • (8) We have compared features of experimental thyroiditis in the Buffalo strain rat induced by neonatal thymectomy, immunization with rat thyroglobulin (Tg) and complete Freund's adjuvant, and subcutaneous administration of trypan blue or 3-methylcholanthrene.
  • (9) Both Buffalo and Fisher thyroid monolayers responded to gamma IF with MHC class II antigen expression when assessed by laser flow cytometry using MRC OX-6 monoclonal anti-RT1.B.
  • (10) The setting is an Adult Day Health Care Program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Buffalo, New York.
  • (11) Bovine herpesvirus-4 is not strictly species-specific: infection was proved in American bison (Bison bison), African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), sheep and probably cat, because feline herpesvirus-2 is in fact a BHV-4 strain.
  • (12) Thus, buffalo herds are likely to be more infectious at some times than at others.
  • (13) Using buffalo serum, first extraneous proteins were precipitated by making the serum 2.26 M saturated with ammonium sulphate at pH 7.0 and then albumin was precipitated from the supernatant at 1.9 M ammonium sulphate concentration at pH 4.2.
  • (14) Both species ate the same amount per unit body weight but buffaloes spent 53% more time ruminating than cattle.
  • (15) Monitoring of DDT and HCH residues in abiotic and biotic components of the environment of Delhi during 1988 to 1989 revealed low to moderate levels of these insecticides in soil, earthworms, birds, buffalo milk, water, freshwater clams, fish, human fat, human blood and breast milk samples.
  • (16) This was investigated in Buffalo strain rats bearing the tumor, Morris hepatoma 5123tc.
  • (17) Rates of passage and rumination (kp, kr) were higher for buffaloes than for cattle.
  • (18) A study was carried out to determine the effect on the reproductive performance of female Glossina morsitans morsitans Westwood when allowed to feed, in vitro, for 63 days on fresh defibrinated blood of buffalo, bushbuck, cattle, eland, oryx, warthog, waterbuck or wildebeest.
  • (19) Four hundred and six serum samples from buffalo (Syncerus caffer) were tested for leptospirosis, using the microscopic agglutination test.
  • (20) The buffalo muscle aldolase was found to be similar to rabbit muscle aldolase in physico-chemical properties.

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