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106.ARE A BUFFALO AND A BISON THE SAME?

It would probably be hard to convince anyone that the buffalo on the United States five-cent piece is not really a buffalo. Yet it’s a fact. The so-called American buffalo is not a true buffalo, but a bison.

It belongs, however, to the wild-ox family and so is a near relative of the true buffaloes, chiefly in their proportions and in having 14 pairs of ribs, not 13.