Q 01/05

Which US president helped found the American Bison Society in 1905 to save the species from extinction?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) William Howard Taft

C) Grover Cleveland

D) Woodrow Wilson

Answer · why

A) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt. He first went west in 1883 to shoot a bison, then turned conservationist and co-founded the society that sent captive-bred animals...

Q 02/05

Which president signed the law making the bison the US national mammal?

A) Barack Obama

B) George W. Bush

C) Bill Clinton

D) Donald Trump

Answer · why

A) Barack Obama

Barack Obama. The 2016 National Bison Legacy Act put an animal the country had once hunted to near extinction beside the bald eagle as an official nat...

Q 03/05

Despite the nickname 'American buffalo', true buffalo are native only to which two continents?

A) Asia and Europe

B) Africa and Asia

C) Africa and South America

D) Asia and Australia

Answer · why

B) Africa and Asia

Africa and Asia. The Cape buffalo and the water buffalo are only distant relatives of the American animal, whose 'buffalo' label dates from early Euro...

Q 04/05

Which Asian animal, also called the Indian bison, is the largest of all wild cattle?

A) Yak

B) Gaur

C) Water buffalo

D) Banteng

Answer · why

B) Gaur

Gaur. A big bull stands six feet at the shoulder and is so powerful that, apart from humans, tigers are about the only predator to tackle an adult.

Q 05/05

A bison's massive shoulder hump is mostly muscle that powers which winter habit?

A) Breaking river ice with its hooves

B) Sweeping snow aside with its head

C) Digging dens in snowdrifts

D) Ramming trees to shake down bark

Answer · why

B) Sweeping snow aside with its head

Sweeping snow aside with its head. The hump's muscles hang from long spines on the backbone, so a bison swings its head like a snowplow where elk and ...