Wisent

Before Man came herds of wisent and mastodon kept the land mostly clear, and herds of white tail roamed. ❋ Marycatelli (2010)

Notable mammals include the reintroduced bison or wisent Bison bonasus (EN), wolf Canis lupus, lynx Felis lynx, otter Lutra lutra and European beaver Castor fiber, also reintroduced. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The first recorded piece of legislation on the protection of the forest dates to 1538 when a document issued by Polish king Zygmunt Stary (Sigismund I Old) instituted the death penalty for poaching a wisent (European bison). ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1929 a small herd of four wisents was bought by the Polish state from various zoological gardens and from the Western Caucasus (where the wisent was to become extinct just several years afterwards). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The forest was declared a hunting reserve in 1541 for the protection of wisent. ❋ Unknown (2008)

European bison or wisent as they're known in Poland are distantly related to American bison and are different in that they are forest dwellers, rather than roaming the open prairie. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The short-horned kind, with its hump and shaggy mane, was also fairly common east of the mountains; it closely resembled the familiar wisent of Europe. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (1988)

Modern naturalists identify the elk with the eland, the wisent with the auerochs. ❋ Unknown (1874)

Then slowe the dowghtie Sigfrid a wisent and an elk, he smote four stoute uroxen and a grim and sturdie schelk. ❋ Unknown (1874)

Starting off on the wrong hoof: A Przewalski horse and a wisent become acquainted in the new wilderness preserve they will share outside Berlin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Apart from ibexes, the Chomutov zoopark has been participating in the reintroduction of wisent, another endangered species. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There's also a European species of bison, the rare wisent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a solution, they began promoting the word ‘bison, 'which had already been used in the Latin name of a closely related European animal, the wisent (Bison bonasus). ❋ Unknown (2009)

•gaur (Southern Asia) •wisent •zebu (that's that wonderful humped cattle you see in India) •yaks (from Nepal). ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Footnote: Dar nach sluoger schiere, einen wisent unde elch. ❋ George P. Marsh (1841)