Wisent

Siegfried's elk was our moose; and like the American frontiersmen of to-day, the old German singer calls the Wisent or Bison a buffalo -- European sportsmen now committing an equally bad blunder by giving it the name of the extinct aurochs.

The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

American Bison, Wisent [European Bison]) that are characterized in part by having relatively more hair around the head, neck, and forequarters.

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