BULLET AND SHOT 



ordinary diet of grass. They are very fond of the 

 young, tender, sprouting bamboos, from one foot 

 to three or four feet in height. They feed and lie 

 down alternately both by day and by night, always 

 selecting the longest grass which they can find 

 in the vicinity for their siesta, which lasts from 

 about ten a.m. till two or three o'clock p.m. if the 

 sun be hot, but, if the weather be moist and cool, 

 they often graze between those hours, and lie down 

 when they feel so inclined on their grazing ground. 

 Their necessity for chewing the cud renders it 

 imperative for them to occasionally repose, if only 

 for that purpose. 



Bison are very fond of salt, and they are, in 

 common with deer, elephants, and tame cattle, in 

 the habit of resorting, generally by night or at 

 early dawn, to any places where salt earth may 

 be exposed in the vicinity of their grazing grounds 

 for the time being. 



Bison are gregarious, and are generally found 

 in herds of from ten, fifteen, to twenty or more 

 animals. Usually each herd contains only one 

 black bull, the other males with it being immature 

 beasts. Occasionally two black bulls are found 

 at the same time with a herd, but in such cases 

 one of them is probably a visitor or an interloper, 

 whose stay with the herd, unless indeed he should 

 be able to vanquish and drive off the bull in 

 possession, will be but a very brief one. But it 

 is a very common thing to find a herd without 

 even one black bull accompanying it, for the mature 

 males of many species of animals prefer solitude 



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