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thickwood buffalo

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a variety of bison, Bison bison athabascae, found in lightly wooded regions of northern Alberta and the Mackenzie District.

See: wood buffalo

Quotations

1926

The thickwood buffalo . . . differs strikingly from all the others though some writers seem to think it is the offspring of animals detached by accident from the great herds.