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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Part 2 - Side-by-side comparison between European bison (Bison bonasus) and American bison (Bison bison). WWF maximum cards / maxicards / dorincards with European Bison / Wisent from Lithuania. Also, an AUROCHS look-alike image.

"The wisent (pronounced /ˈviːzənt/) (Bison bonasus), also known as the European bison, is a species of Eurasian bison. It is the heaviest surviving land animal in Europe; a typical wisent is about 2.8 to 3 m (9 to 10 ft) long and 1.8 to 2.2 m (6 to 7 ft) tall, and weighs 300 to 920 kg (660 to 2,000 lb). It is typically lighter than the related American Bison (Bison bison), and has shorter hair on the neck, head and forequarters, but longer tail and horns.
Wisent were once hunted to extinction in the wild, but they have since been reintroduced from captivity into several countries in Eastern Europe. 
They are now forest-dwelling. 
They have few predators (besides humans), with only scattered reports from the 1800s of wolf and bear predation. 
Wisent were first scientifically described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. 
Some later descriptions treat the wisent as conspecific with the American bison. 
It is not to be confused with the aurochs, the extinct ancestor of domestic cattle."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison

WHAT THE HECK cattle is intended for, is specifically for reconstituting the extinct AUROCHS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heck_cattle_male.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs

Now let's see if I can find in my collection American bison MCs that are somewhat similar with the European bison MCs above, in the animal posture from those images.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison

Once again, for close comparison, without much scrolling:
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Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -
A place to share YOUR hearts!

My entry for today is a heart hollow contour that looks like it's spray-painted, having also a symbolic gunshot [how about shotgun?] wound at the top of the heart.
Now you tell me in which of those 4 MCs from Lithuania you see that, and where exactly in that image?
:)
If I can see it, then ANYBODY can see it.
[As if I am at the bottom of the totem pole...] :)


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3 comments:

  1. ClytieMarch 24, 2011 at 12:54 PM

    Okay, I see a heart on the top left card ... it's his NOSE!!!

    Is that the one you see???

    Thank you so much for the search - I had fun!

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  2. DorincardMarch 24, 2011 at 3:33 PM

    @Clytie Bravo! I didn't see that on the nose. I saw another, maybe even one more, depending how much of a stretch I allow...:)

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  3. DorincardMarch 25, 2011 at 7:27 PM

    Check out the hip of "the last male standing" in the lower right MC image. :)

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