wisent

Examples from the Web for wisent

• Modern naturalists identify the elk with the eland, the wisent with the auerochs.

  Man and Nature|George P. Marsh

• Grazing in the meadows were the aurochs, or wild ox, and the wisent, or bison.

  Men of the Old Stone Age|Henry Fairfield Osborn

• The urus survived in Germany as late as the seventeenth century, while a few of the bison or 'wisent' survive to the present time.

  Men of the Old Stone Age|Henry Fairfield Osborn

• It is uncertain whether the Wisent does not also occur in Siberia.

  Men of the Old Stone Age|Henry Fairfield Osborn