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bison

1. a member of the cattle tribe, Bison bison, formerly widely distributed over the prairies of W North America but now confined to reserves and parks, with a massive head, shaggy forequarters, and a humped back
2. a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
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bison

[′bīs·ən]
(vertebrate zoology)
The common name for two species of the family Bovidae in the order Artiodactyla; the wisent or European bison (Bison bonasus), and the American species (Bison bison).
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Bison

(tool)
GNU's replacement for the yacc parser generator. Bison runs under Unix and on Atari computers. It was written by Robert Corbett.

Latest version: 1.28, as of 2000-05-22.

As of version 1.24, Bison will no longer apply the GNU General Public License to your code. You can use the output files without restriction.

FTP GNU.org or your nearest GNU archive site.

E-mail: <bug-bison@gnu.org>.

Bison++ is a version which produces C++ output.
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bison

The Free Software Foundation's version of yacc.
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Re-Bisoning the West relates the story of the American bison, demonstrating the complex relationships the species maintains with the earth and humanity itself.
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In 1905, Teddy Roosevelt co-founded the American Bison Society, and, with the New York City Zoo (now the Bronx Zoo), efforts began to save them.
Bison has 1,500 employees, 17 yards, 300 transport trucks, 25 commercial disposal facilities and an integrated network of water gathering infrastructure.
A The European bison is one of the symbols of nature conservation in Europe.
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, IDEA Public Association and WWF representative office in the country, on the initiative of Leyla Aliyeva, the Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundationand founder and head of IDEA, are currently implementing a joint project to reintroduce bison into their historical habitats.
Thousands of Native Americans joined in celebrations of the birth of a white bison female in the US state of Wisconsin in 1994.
The European bison eat 28 tonnes of the pellets a year and 20 tonnes of hay during winter.The breeding programme for the bison requires new investments every year.
The compact footprint makes the EvoQuip Bison 280 easy to transport and also makes it an ideal machine for working in urban areas.
Our first objective of this study was to test predictions of the competitive release hypothesis that the presence of large grazers (bison) on tallgrass prairie reduces canopy density, increases available light, and increases the growth, reproduction, and cover of forb species.
Prior to these transactions, Bison owned an aggregate of 13,113,800 common shares or approximately 8.7% of the issued and outstanding common shares (on a non-diluted basis).
" While bison were unarguably slaughtered by hunters, it could not account for the crash of an entire population.
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