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bison

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Every paragraph the index cites under bison, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

61:3.5The first deer ap­peared, and North Amer­ica was soon over­run by ru­mi­nants—deer, oxen, camels, bi­son, and sev­eral species of rhinoceroses—but the gi­ant pigs, more than six feet tall, be­came ex­tinct.

61:5.7These first two ice in­va­sions were not ex­ten­sive in Eura­sia. Dur­ing these early epochs of the ice age North Amer­ica was over­run with mastodons, woolly mam­moths, horses, camels, deer, musk oxen, bi­son, ground sloths, gi­ant beavers, saber-toothed tigers, sloths as large as ele­phants, and many groups of the cat and dog fam­i­lies. But from this time for­ward they were rapidly re­duced in num­bers by the in­creas­ing cold of the glacial pe­riod. To­ward the close of the ice age the ma­jor­ity of these an­i­mal species were ex­tinct in North Amer­ica.

61:7.13The rig­or­ous glacial pe­riod de­stroyed many species and rad­i­cally changed nu­mer­ous oth­ers. Many were sorely sifted by the to-and-fro mi­gra­tion which was made nec­es­sary by the ad­vanc­ing and re­treat­ing ice. Those an­i­mals which fol­lowed the glaciers back and forth over the land were the bear, bi­son, rein­deer, musk ox, mam­moth, and mastodon.

61:7.14The mam­moth sought the open prairies, but the mastodon pre­ferred the shel­tered fringes of the for­est re­gions. The mam­moth, un­til a late date, ranged from Mex­ico to Canada; the Siberian va­ri­ety be­came wool cov­ered. The mastodon per­sisted in North Amer­ica un­til ex­ter­mi­nated by the red man much as the white man later killed off the bi­son.

69:7.2The do­mes­ti­ca­tion of an­i­mals came about ac­ci­den­tally. The sav­age would hunt herds much as the Amer­i­can In­di­ans hunted the bi­son. By sur­round­ing the herd they could keep con­trol of the an­i­mals, thus be­ing able to kill them as they were re­quired for food. Later, cor­rals were con­structed, and en­tire herds would be cap­tured.

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Cited alongside: mammoths, mastodons, woolly mammoths, camels, deer, musk oxen, red race