Identifier: americannaturalh02hornuoft (find matches)
Title: The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937
Subjects: Natural history -- North America
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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0 inhabit a desolate and inhospitableregion southwest of Great Slave Lake. In 1890, the Yellow-stone Park herd contained about three hundred head; butthrough inadequate protection and killing done by unprin-cipled poachers in quest of heads to sell, to-day only forty-nine head remain. The weakness of the efforts to protectthat herd was a national disgrace. Through lack of sufficientlaws and patrol service the poachers were permitted to robthe American people of a wild herd wliicli no expenditure ofmoney ever can replace. There were in captivity, in January, 1913, ■2,907 i)ure-bred Buffaloes, and the number is steadily increasing. Of * A true Buffalo is an animal with no hump on its slionldtTs; and is foundonly in Africa and Asia. Our animal, having a high hnnii). is really a bi.son: l)utinasmuch as it is known to ninety-five millions of Americans as the BuHalo.it would be quite useless to attempt to bring about a universal change in its popularname. There is but one living si)ecies.
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DANGER FROM SAVAGE BUFFALOES 7 these, the majority are in large fenced areas, and every zoolog-ical park and garden contains as many head as it can prop-erly accommodate. The Buffalo breeds readily in captivity, and is easilycared for. The majority of captive animals are reasonably

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