Re: Elephant/Mammoth NA

From: zolota (zolota3_at_REMOVEshaw.ca)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:44:56 GMT

<icycalmca@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> zolota wrote:
> <snip>
>> But a previously unknown herd of wood buffalo
>> (we have two surviving
>> species of at least three at European contact) was
>> discovered in Alberta
>> in the 1960's.
>
> You mean 2 subspecies, "rediscovered", and 1957:

My bad, subspecies would be correct. But if the definition of a species is
the production of fertile offspring then how can European cattle and NA
bison be considered anything other than the same species?

 My understanding was that there were the Plains, Woods, and Eastern buffalo
at the time of contact. The later went extinct in about 1770 when the last
herd was slaughtered somewhere in Pennsylvania.

As for the 1957 date, it thought it was 1962

You did mention that locals would have known of this Northern herd. My
understanding is that it came as a complete surprise for the folks living
in the area but that it nevertheless proved to be a completely seperate hert
for reporting purposes.

z

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