8 HOOFED ANIMALS 



be treated the same as a tiger. Frequently the first serious 

 sign of danger in a Buffalo is the murder of a weaker member 

 of the herd. 



The largest herd in a fenced game preserve is that owned 

 by the Canadian Government, near Wainwright, Alberta, 

 which in 1913 contained 1,052 head. The largest herd on 

 public exhibition is that of the New York Zoological Park, 

 which in 1913 contained forty-two head of pure-breed animals 

 representing all ages. From the increase of this herd, two 

 national bison herds have been founded. In 1907 the Wichita 

 National Bison Herd was started with fifteen head presented 

 by the Zoological Society, and by the end of 1913 it had 

 increased to forty-eight head. In 1913 the society presented 

 to the American Bison Society fourteen head to form the 

 nucleus of the new Wind Cave Park National Herd, in south- 

 western South Dakota. 



The value of a full-grown Buffalo cow in New York is from 

 $400 to $500, and an adult bull is worth about $100 less. Ex- 

 ceptionally fine mounted heads are worth from $300 to $500. 



The Buffalo was first seen by white men in Anahuac, the 

 Aztec capital of Mexico, in 1521, when Cortez and his men 

 paid their first visit to the menagerie of King Montezuma. 

 In its wild state it was first seen in southern Texas, in 1530, 

 by a shipwrecked Spanish sailor. The Buffalo once roamed 

 over fully one-third of the entire continent of North America, 

 and its numbers far exceeded those of any other large mammal 

 of recent times, with the possible exception of the caribou. 



Not only did it inhabit the plains of the West, but also 

 the hilly hard-wood forests of the Appalachian region, the 



