Add To Cart

Click to enlarge image(s)

Country Artist Figure "Bison/Buffalo", SET/2 - It was a life-long love of nature and a definite flair for experimenting that led to the creation of Country Artist . In 1978, at it's beginning, Country Artist was a typical cottage industry with materials for those first products literally mixed on the kitchen table in a small cottage in Tanworth-In-Arden England. Today Country Artist are still designed in England, and with shipments to seventeen countries around the globe these beautiful works of art are now enjoyed the world over. Stone resin construction. Make sure you see the entire animal line we carry, measuring between 2 1/2" and 3" tall for a fraction of the price you will find elsewhere.
Bison is a taxonomic genus containing six species of large even-toed ungulates within the subfamily Bovinae. Only two of these species still exist: the American Bison (B. bison) and the European Bison, or wisent (B. bonasus). In American Western culture, the bison is commonly (and incorrectly) referred to as "buffalo". Bison are distinct from buffalo, with the only two species holding that name being the Asian Water Buffalo and African Buffalo. The gaur, a large, thick-coated ox found in Asia, is also known as the Indian Bison, although it is in the genus Bos and thus not a true bison. The American and European bison are the largest terrestrial mammals in North America and Europe. Like their cattle relatives, bison are nomadic grazers and travel in herds, except for the non-dominant bulls, which travel alone or in small groups during most of the year. American bison are known for living in the Great Plains. Both species were hunted close to extinction during the 19th and 20th centuries but have since rebounded, although the European bison is still endangered. Unlike the Asian Water Buffalo, the bison has never really been domesticated, although it does appear on farms occasionally. It is raised now mostly on large ranches in the United States and Canada for meat. Wild herds are found in Yellowstone and northern central Canada (see Wood Bison). They live to be about 20 years old and are born without their trademark "hump" or horns, with the development of their horns, they become mature at two to three years of age, although the males continue to grow slowly to about age seven. Adult bulls express a high degree of dominance during mating season.