The grasses support scores of insects — butterflies, bees, and grasshoppers — as well as grazing herbivores like deer and bison.

这些草为许多昆虫——蝴蝶、蜜蜂和蚱蜢——以及鹿和牛等食草动物提供了栖息地。

And a century ago, the bison were reduced to barely 1,000.

一百年前，牛的数量曾锐减至不到一千。

Now 82 tribes across the U. S. have more than 20,000 bison in 65 herds.

目前全美 82 个部落 65 个牧群总共有 2 万多头牛。

Or capitulating to bison at the entrance to Yellowstone.

或者在黄石公园入口处向牛投降。

In volume 25, page 934, column two, the encyclopaedia states that the European bison, or wisent, may be found only in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland, which is also incorrect.

《大英百科全书》第25卷934页第2栏中写到，欧洲牛仅在波兰比亚沃维耶扎森林生活，这一点也错误的。

The whole idea is to sort of emulate the bison in olden days.

整个想法模仿古代的牛。

Most of the wild animals must be watched from a distance, especially the bison.

大部分生动物必须远距离欣赏，尤其牛。

We do have live bison in San Francisco, if you haven't seen it.

们旧金山确实有牛, 不过你可能没见过。

Even the few remaining " wild" bison are intensively managed and carry cattle genes.

即使仅存的少数“生”牛也被集中管理着，并且携带着家牛的基因。

Thomas is involved in efforts with the zoo's current herd of bison.

托斯参与了动物园当前的牛群繁育工作。

The wild horses came from Britain's Exmoor National Park, while European bison came from Poland.

这些自英国埃克斯穆尔国家公园，而欧洲牛自波兰。

Just as cows, sheep and bison roam in herds today, so, too, did plant-eating dinosaurs.

就像现在成群行动的牛、羊和牛那样，食草恐龙当年也如此。

The bison in Yellowstone injure far more people than do the grizzly bears.

黄石公园的牛比灰熊伤的人要多得多。

Just like cows, sheep and bison roam in herds today, so, too, did plant-eating dinosaurs.

就像今天的奶牛、绵羊和牛成群结队地游荡一样，食草恐龙也如此。

Some cattle farmers are against the plan to move bison.

一些养牛的农民反对转移牛的计划。

So the beaver will go the way of the bison and the American Indian.

所以海狸会走牛和美洲印第安人走过的路。

For the bison, it will be a matter of brute strength.

对于美洲牛说，用蛮力就可以做到。

Particularly the little geometric signs, the dots, the lines, the triangles, the circles, these things are so often overlooked by all those flashy mammoths and bison that are floating around on the walls.

尤其那些小的几何符号，点，线，三角形，圆圈，这些东西经常被那些浮光掠影的猛犸象和牛所忽视，它们在墙上四处漂浮。

Then, between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago, likely because of a changing climate, hunting by humans, and competition with bison, horses disappeared from the American archaeological record.

接着，在一万五千年前到五千年前这段时期，很可能因为气候改变、人类猎杀，以及和牛的竞争，便从美洲的考古记中消失了。

In more fertile spots the observer would have come to the conclusion that one of those great herds of bisons which graze upon the prairie land was approaching him.

如果这里一个肥沃的地区，人们就会断定，这草原上游牧的大队牛群，正在向着他这方面移动。