Carpathian Wisent

Carpathian Wisent

Taxobox
name = Carpathian Wisent
status = EX
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Bovidae
genus = "Bison""'
species = "B. bonasus"
subspecies = "B. b. hungarorum"
trinomial = "Bison bonasus hungarorum"
trinomial_authority = (Kretzoi, 1946)
The Carpathian Wisent ("Bison bonasus hungarorum") was a subspecies of Wisent that inhabited the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe, and Transylvania. It may also have lived in modern-day Ukraine and Hungary.

It began to die out about a hundred years earlier than its very close cousin, the Caucasian Wisent, probably because it lived nearer to (and sometimes in) Central Europe.

The last wild one was shot in the Transylvanian Carpathians in 1790.

In 1951, Wisents were reintroduced into the wild, and they can still be seen; however they are not yet technically wild.

ee also

*List of extinct animals of Europe
*Caucasian Wisent
*Wisent

External links

* [http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/carpathianbison.htm The Extinction Website - Carpathian European Bison - Bison bonasus hungarorum] .
* [http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Bison_bonasus.html European bison / Wisent]


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