• Bison are no longer endangered. There are over 350,000 animals alive today.
  
  
• Bison have a shaggy dark brown winter coat, and a lighter weight, lighter brown summer coat.
  
  
• Bison can reach up to 6 1/2 feet tall, 10 feet long and weigh 900 to 2,000 lbs.
  
  
• Their heads and forequarters are massive, and both sexes have short, curved horns, which they use in fighting for status within the herd and for defense.
  
  
• Bison mate in August and September; a single reddish-brown calf is born, weighing about 35 to 40 lbs. the following spring, and nurses for about a year.
  
  
• Bison are mature at three years of age, and have a life expectancy of 18 to 22 years in the wild and 35 to 40 years in captivity.
  
  
• Bison can jump up to 6 feet high and run up to 40 mph, an amazing and surprising fact.