{"id":10238,"date":"2016-10-31T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2020-12-22T14:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:01:56","slug":"american-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/american-bison\/","title":{"rendered":"American Bison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I photographed this American Bison bull during my first full day in the Grand Teton National Park. The bull walked right in front of a fairly large group of people and acted as if we were not there. It was quite amazing. I was very impressed with his size. A very beautiful but massive animal. I would certainly not want to be in front of him when he&#8217;s not happy.<\/p>\n<p>The American Bison has a very long history in North America. Bison populations before 1880 are estimated to be in the 60 million range. By 1900\u00a0there were around 300. The significant decline\u00a0was due to hunting and the introduction of bovine diseases from cattle. Today, the population has rebounded to around 400,000. The Yellowstone area plays a big role in their survival and ongoing population increase.<\/p>\n<p>There is a big of confusion between bison and buffalo.\u00a0Early American settlers called bison \u201cbufello\u201d due to the similar appearance between the two animals, and the name &#8220;buffalo&#8221; stuck for the American variety. But it&#8217;s wrong.\u00a0The American bison (Bison bison) lives only in North America, while the two main buffalo species reside in Africa and Asia. A small population of bison relatives called the European bison (Bison bonasus) lives in isolated parts of Poland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10240\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160918-bison-herd-015-edit-e1477840839203.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10240\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/american-bison\/bison\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160918-bison-herd-015-edit-e1477840839203.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Terry B. 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Kahler 2016&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;American Bison&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;exposure_bias&quot;:&quot;0\/1&quot;,&quot;flash&quot;:&quot;16&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"American Bison\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;American Bison&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160918-bison-herd-015-edit-e1477840839203-500x750.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160918-bison-herd-015-edit-e1477840839203-1000x1500.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-10240 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160918-bison-herd-015-edit-e1477840839203.jpg\" alt=\"American Bison\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160918-bison-herd-015-edit-e1477840839203.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160918-bison-herd-015-edit-e1477840839203-333x500.jpg 333w, https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20160918-bison-herd-015-edit-e1477840839203-500x750.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This image was taken with my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/glossary\/canon-eos-7d-mark-ii\/\">Canon EOS 7D Mark II<\/a>\u00a0using my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/glossary\/canon-ef-100-400mm-f4-5-5-6l-is-ii-usm-lens\/\">Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6 II Lens<\/a>\u00a0set on 400mm. The camera was set on Aperture Priority mode with the aperture set at f\/8, shutter speed at 1\/320th of a second and the ISO set at 800. I\u00a0hand-held the camera and should have used a tripod. This is a single image processed in Lightroom and finalized in Photoshop using Nik Color Efex Pro.<\/p>\n<p>You can access my Yellowstone\/Grand Teton collection by clicking\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/yellowstone-np-area\/\">here<\/a>. 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