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The 18 pages that link to American bison, each with the reason it gives.

• Great PlainsRelated: Commercial slaughter sharply reduced bison and disrupted Plains Indigenous societies.

• Population bottleneckBroader topic: Commercial slaughter caused a severe recent decline, although surviving herds retained more variation than some bottleneck examples.

• OverexploitationBroader topic: Its near-extirpation illustrates rapid depletion of a widely distributed wild animal.

• Westward expansionRelated: Railroad hunting and settlement drove dramatic bison declines, undermining Plains peoples’ livelihoods.

• Passenger pigeonCompared with: Its near-extinction offers a parallel, but bison populations later recovered.

• BisonBroader topic: It is one of the two living species in the genus.

• Buffalo BillRelated: Cody’s bison hunting helped give him the name Buffalo Bill and shaped his public reputation.

• Transcontinental RailroadRelated: Rail access and intensified hunting accelerated the destruction of bison herds.

• MegaherbivoreBroader topic: Bison grazing, wallowing, and movement create fine-grained variation across grasslands.

• BoviniBroader topic: It represents the bison lineage within Bovini.

• European bisonCompared with: It is the wisent’s closest living relative, but evolved on a different continent.

• African buffaloCompared with: The bison is another massive wild bovine, but it evolved in North America and has a different build.

• Steppe bisonRelated: It is a close living relative whose ancestry includes steppe-bison populations.

• Badlands National ParkRelated: Bison are among the prairie mammals living in the park today.

• Highland cattleCompared with: Bison are sometimes mistaken for shaggy cattle but are a separate species.

• Wind Cave National ParkRelated: Bison roam the park’s prairie as part of its celebrated wildlife restoration.

• DaeodonCompared with: Its familiar body size provides a useful scale comparison for the exceptionally large Daeodon.

• Environmental history of the United StatesRelated: Its near-extirpation linked commercial hunting, railroad expansion, and federal campaigns against Indigenous peoples.