Bison Bison Bison

So this is the first ‘real’ AP of the year, and we’ve done a couple of things since last time. We went back to the poetry foundation building, and for this unit of the Population class we’re studying the taxonomy of an animal and make a paper collage of it, so i chose the Bison Bison Bison, or more commonly the plains bison. The plains bison mostly lives in the american Midwest, is usually moving, and eats grasses.

Here’s the taxonomy and characteristics of the plains bison:

Taxonomic Level

Your organism’s group

Key characteristics of group

Kingdom

animalia

they’re animals (not plants)

Phylum

Chordata

’a notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, endostyle or thyroid, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail.’

Class

Mammalia

milk, hair, and a neocortex

Order

Artiodactyla

even number of toes

Family

Bovidae

Sexual dimorphism

Genus

Bison

shoulders have humps

Species

Bison Bison

lives in the american continent 


Here’s the collage:

Based off of this image, here:

Here’s a Venn diagram describing the differences between a Wood bison and a Plains bison:

Basically, the plains bison has more hair that’s curlier than the woods bison, the plains bison is lighter, (in both color and weight), and while the woods bison’s native habitat is the mountains of cascadia and the pacific northwest, the plains bison lives in flatter areas like prairies.



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