Shepherds killed the last three in 1927. One bull's DNA is still in Europe's wild herds. Every European bison alive today descends from twelve animals. One was a Caucasian bull, caught as a calf in 1907 and in a German zoo by 1908. He died in February 1925. Two years later shepherds killed the last three wild ones. A genome read in 2017 from a wild bison in Poland was about fourteen percent Caucasian. #caucasianwisent #bison #wisent #extinctanimals #conservation
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Shepherds killed the last three in 1927. One bull's DNA is still in Europe's wild herds. Every European bison alive today descends from twelve animals. One was a Caucasian bull, caught as a calf in 1907 and in a German zoo by 1908. He died in February 1925. Two years later shepherds killed the last three wild ones. A genome read in 2017 from a wild bison in Poland was about fourteen percent Caucasian. #caucasianwisent #bison #wisent #extinctanimals #conservation
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