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Portraits of the Bison.


Portraits Of The Bison

Wes Olson

University of Alberta Press The University of Alberta Press (UAP) is a publishing house and a division of the University of Alberta that engages in academic publishing. Overview
UAP is situated in Ring House 2 on the University of Alberta campus, located in Edmonton, Alberta, and publishes an
 

Ring House 2, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E1

0888644329 $39.95 www.uap.ualberta.ca

Portraits Of The Bison: An Illustrated Guide To Bison Society by Wes Olson (Senior Warden, Elk Island National Park Elk Island National Park, 75 sq mi (194 sq km), central Alta., Canada, near Edmonton; est. 1913. It occupies a wooded rolling region in the midst of level farmland. The park is Canada's major fenced preserve for buffalo and other prairie animals. , Alberta, Canada) is an informed and informative introduction to the history, social structure, and life cycle of bison enhanced with anatomical illustrations as well as the color photography y Johane Janelle. Readers will learn how to identify bison by age and gender, and the diffrere4nces between the wood bison wood bison

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 and plains bison species. A truly remarkable work, Portraits Of The Bison is an ideal and enthusiastically recommended addition to both school and community library North American North American

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 wildlife reference collections--and especially commended to the non-specialist general reader wanting to know more about the social structures and relationships of a bison herd.
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