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Stuff You Should Know

What Saved the American Bison

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2011

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The pre-colonial range of the American bison stretched from Canada to Mexico. From 1820 to 1880, the population dwindled from 30 million to just over 1,000. Join Josh and Chuck as they explore how bison were brought back from the verge of extinction.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:30.4

Brought to you by the reinvented 2012 camera.

0:33.3

It's ready.

0:34.1

Are you?

0:35.8

Welcome to Stuffy Should Know, GrimhouseStuffWorks.com.

0:45.8

Hey and welcome to The Podcast.

0:47.3

I'm Josh Clark.

0:48.4

There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and that makes this stuff you should know.

0:53.4

The Big Wully Edition.

0:56.0

Yeah, I'm kind of excited about this one.

0:57.9

Yeah man.

0:59.2

We've seen one of those before.

1:00.7

We're talking about Bison's by the way.

1:02.4

Yeah, I thought you might bring that up.

1:03.8

Yeah, we saw in at that animal preserve.

1:07.2

There was like a bear and a bison and they were fighting.

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