The Great American Buffalo

[Inside Forward]

Ken Burns has outdone himself again.

Tremendous documentary on Iplayer for anyone interested. About the American Bison and how it’s decimation paved the way for the end of the Native American way of life.

Hard to believe that at the end of the 18th century there were 60 million of them roaming the Great Plains and less than a century later there were fewer than 600 left.

 

[Will e]

Watched it last week, highly recommend, don't want to spoil it by posting facts but loads of surprises for me.

 

[Arkle]

I’ll aim to give this a watch

 

[Jon Dough]

Ken Burns has outdone himself again.

Tremendous documentary on Iplayer for anyone interested. About the American Bison and how it’s decimation paved the way for the end of the Native American way of life.

Hard to believe that at the end of the 18th century there were 60 million of them roaming the Great Plains and less than a century later there were fewer than 600 left.

1860 there were an estimated 60 million 20 years later around 300.

 

[Rhyd59]

Ken Burns has outdone himself again.

Tremendous documentary on Iplayer for anyone interested. About the American Bison and how it’s decimation paved the way for the end of the Native American way of life.

Hard to believe that at the end of the 18th century there were 60 million of them roaming the Great Plains and less than a century later there were fewer than 600 left.

You can't wash your bollox in a Great American Buffalo...

 

[Churchlanelad]

We were in Yellowstone Park last September and saw a herd of them coming across the road. We stopped and they just sauntered beside us, one was about 2 ft. away.

 

[0verlord44]

I adore Burn's documentaries and the fact Americans can watch it for free.

Ken Burns has outdone himself again.

Tremendous documentary on Iplayer for anyone interested. About the American Bison and how it’s decimation paved the way for the end of the Native American way of life.

Hard to believe that at the end of the 18th century there were 60 million of them roaming the Great Plains and less than a century later there were fewer than 600 left.

Its decimation was targeted by the US government BECAUSE it would end their way of life..

 

[Butcher's Coat]

Tasty big buggers them like.

 

[Hair Flick]

Tasty big buggers them like.

Their wings are canny. Obviously one of those weird evolutionary throwbacks Darwin told us about.

 

[herra soul mob]

We were in Yellowstone Park last September and saw a herd of them coming across the road. We stopped and they just sauntered beside us, one was about 2 ft. away.

was that Lamar valley area ? loads there, can get close to them( in the car ) , can turn on a sixpence

 

[SpiritofBurnden]

We were in Yellowstone Park last September and saw a herd of them coming across the road. We stopped and they just sauntered beside us, one was about 2 ft. away.

One part of the documentary focused on a train which had to halt to let a herd so vast pass through that it took two hours to cross the tracks.

Its decimation was targeted by the US government BECAUSE it would end their way of life..

Aye, even when they forced the Native Americans onto Reservations and gave them hunting rights, they turned a blind eye to poachers hunting bison for sport.

Native Americans hunted what they needed for food and clothing but the big game hunters just chopped off the head for a trophy and left the rest of the carcass rotting on the plains.

 

[0verlord44]

One part of the documentary focused on a train which had to halt to let a herd so vast pass through that it took two hours to cross the tracks.

Aye, even when they forced the Native Americans onto Reservations and gave them hunting rights, they turned a blind eye to poachers hunting bison for sport.

Native Americans hunted what they needed for food and clothing but the big game hunters just chopped off the head for a trophy and left the rest of the carcass rotting on the plains.

Turned a blind eye? They actively hired recently retired army officers to hunt them down and kill the lot of them.

Its in Ken burns doc about the west, which is tremendous too

 

[zinedine]

1860 there were an estimated 60 million 20 years later around 300.

All to do with man. Man really is a boil on the arse cheeks of the world.

 

[ilovehorswill]

Native Americans weren’t quite as shite as they are in Westerns and needed subduing permanently

You take away the animal central to their culture, their food, their clothing, they’re absolutely donald ducked

Starvation is an old favourite. Harrowing of the North, Irish famine and more recently Stalin’s forced famine and the march of suffering in North Korea are just a few

 

[nelford_safc]

Brilliant documentary. I’ve watched it twice.

 

[Hair Flick]

All to do with man. Man really is a boil on the arse cheeks of the world.

 

[Ghfd]

I watched this show. educational and entertaining

9/10

 

[The King of Um]

All to do with man. Man really is a boil on the arse cheeks of the world.

Same with the Passenger pigeons in the US. At one time possibly the most numerous bird on Earth, and between a quarter and a half of the whole US bird population. Three to five billion birds at its height.

Hunting and deforestation saw for them. Mass shootings would kill thousands in one session. One shooting competition needed 32,000 dead birds to get a winner.

Last wild bird known shot in 1900. Then last kept bird in a zoo in 1909. All gone. Three to five billion, to none, in a century.

 

[zinedine]

Same with the Passenger pigeons in the US. At one time possibly the most numerous bird on Earth, and between a quarter and a half of the whole US bird population. Three to five billion birds at its height.

Hunting and deforestation saw for them. Mass shootings would kill thousands in one session. One shooting competition needed 32,000 dead birds to get a winner.

Last wild bird known shot in 1900. Then last kept bird in a zoo in 1909. All gone. Three to five billion, to none, in a century.

That's sad, very sad.

 

[Jon Dough]

Same with the Passenger pigeons in the US. At one time possibly the most numerous bird on Earth, and between a quarter and a half of the whole US bird population. Three to five billion birds at its height.

Hunting and deforestation saw for them. Mass shootings would kill thousands in one session. One shooting competition needed 32,000 dead birds to get a winner.

Last wild bird known shot in 1900. Then last kept bird in a zoo in 1909. All gone. Three to five billion, to none, in a century.

I went to see a Dodo skeleton a few weeks ago,imagine being able to see a live one.Those passenger pigeons the sky was supposed to have darkened when a flock flew over.
And imagine being able to see a real live thylacine.