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- noun Plural form of
wisent .
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Examples
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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).
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In 1923 it was discovered that only 54 wisents survived the war in various zoological gardens all around the world - none of them in Poland.
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Two of them come from the zoological garden in Pszczyna, they were direct descendants of a pair of wisents from the Puszcza Białowieska given to Duke of Pszczyna by Emperor of Russia Alexander II in 1865.
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The number of wisents, European bison (Bison bonasus), fell from more than 500 to less than 200 in 15 years.
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Until September 25, 1915, when an order was issued not to hunt in the reserve, at least 200 wisents were killed.
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The Emperor Alexander II of Russia visited the forest in 1860 and decided that the protection of wisents must be reintroduced.
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The reintroduction proved successful and in 1939 there were 16 wisents in Bialowieza National Park.
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The Emperors started sending the wisents as gifts to various European capitals while at the same time populating the forest with deer, elk and other animals imported from all over the empire.
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The first couple of wisents from Chomutov were released in the wild in the Poloniny National Park in Slovakia in September 2005.
Prague Monitor 2009
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The first couple of wisents from Chomutov were released in the wild in the Poloniny National Park in Slovakia in September 2005.
Prague Monitor 2009
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