Bos bonasus - #1962
Wisent
Side view of mounted adult male of Bos bonasus caucasicus. Formerly Bison bonasus. Also as Bos caucasicus, Caucasian Bison.
Geographic Distribution
Europe, surviving in Germany, Romania and W Russia into 18th Century, in Hungary until about 1790, and in Poland until early part of 20th Century (but extinct in East Prussia, now N Poland, in 1755); extinct in the wild but now reintroduced to E Poland, W Russia.
Order/Family
Bovidae
Genus
Bos
Specific Epithet
bonasus
Image Location
Hungary, Budapest, Hungarian National Museum
Photographer
CP Groves