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Bison roaming Boston
By adamg on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 5:20pm
Kidlet and I went for a little drive around the 'hood today. Wound up on some side street in Jamaica Plain by Brookline and Allandale Farm. Came around a bend, and whoa! What was that? Bison? Circled around, there they were again - on the Boston side of the line (which we know because of the "Welcome to Brookline" sign ahead of us). Bison!
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And then we went on a milk run to Roche Bros.
Because while we have plenty of eggs and bread, we only had enough milk to last us one day. While there, I pointed out the bison meat for sale. "That's disgusting!" she said. "Who'd want to eat bison meat?"
"The same people who'd want to eat cow meat," I said. "Oh, yeah, I guess that makes sense," she replied.
See, every once in awhile, I can still impart knowledge.
Hey, you found my bison!
Hey, you found my bison!
Not bison, I think, but some
Not bison, I think, but some other kind of ungulates. Specifically what, I don't know - I'm not a livestock expert, but bison have big humps and curlier horns (see google images, for example). From what I could see, most cattle have curlier horns than these guys, so that should help identify them.
How I spent New Year's
Doing Google image searches on "adolescent bison" and "young bison," because, no, I am no ungulate/bovine expert (I know, I can hear your shock!). What I found via the image searches was that a) young bison don't have that distinctive hump the elders of the herd do and b) they have straight horns that stick straight out, like on the animals we saw, rather than those sort of J (or L) shaped horns you see on mature bison. Example.
For the record, the kidlet is still holding out for "very large sheep."
Sheep? So she doesn't have to eat them?
Mmmmmmm... sheep...
Long-haired Highland cattle
I think they might be Highland cattle, a long-haired breed from Scotland. You should be able to tell for sure by their kilts.
Game over
timlav wins best comment of the day. Well done, sir!