#0131 · 🦊 mammals

Wisent

Bos bonasus

NTnear threatened 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © valdom · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Natalia Melnikova · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Viktor Stepanov · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Mikhail Ezdakov · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Thorsten Stegmann · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Viktor Stepanov · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Gregoire Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Patrick HAFFNER · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

: bison) ( Bison bonasus ) or the European wood bison , also known as the wisent (/ˈviːzənt/ or /ˈwiːzənt/), the zubr (/ˈzuːbər/), or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo , is a European species of bison. It is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison. The European bison is the heaviest wild land animal in Europe, and individuals in the past may have been even larger than their modern-day descendants. During late...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,160iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,160 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).