Arthur Morgan., age 12, of Fredericton., New Brunswick, for his question:         

How does the bison differ from the American buffalo?

The bison and the American buffalo are two names for the same animal. He is a dark, shaggy ox with broad shoulders arching up in a hump Perhaps six feet above the ground. The fully groom male measures 12 feet fern his rump to his nose, and he may weigh more than half a ton.

Early Settlers named him the buffalo,  who knew about the buffalo cattle of Asia and Africa. But zoologists refuse to class him with these foreign buffalo.  For one thing, when stripped down to his bones, we find that the big ox has 14 pairs of ribs.  The true buffalo has only 13 pairs of ribs.