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Follow the Bronx Buffalo
Research Sheet
cs57.com – The Crescent School
Part I What can you make from a Buffalo?
Directions:
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to go the game site:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/hohr/buffalo/matching/index.html
First click on the Buffalo part, then on the object you think you used to make out of it.
Remember to scroll all the way to the bottom of the pop up window and click the Close
Button when you are done writing down your answer.
1. Hooves? ______________________________________
2. Tail? __________________________________________
3. Skin and Fur? __________________________________
4. Ribs? _________________________________________
5. Horn? ________________________________________
6. Teeth? ________________________________________
Part II How much is a Buffalo worth, nowadays?
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Click here
to go to:
http://www.bisoncentral.com/raising/2004SalesResults.asp, which
will take you to results for
The Fort Niobrara Annual Bison Sale (NE) October 8, 2003
Look at that one chart at the top of the page and answer the
following questions:
1. What was the average price paid for a mature
buffalo cow?
_____$_______
2. The highest price for a mature cow?
____________
3. The highest price for an Adult Bull?
____________
4. How many Adult Bulls were sold that day?
____________
5. How many Yearling Bulls?
____________
6. What did they sell more of, Yearling Bulls or Yearling
Heifers? ____________
Exactly how many more?
____________
7. What do you think the word "Heifer" means? ____________
8. How much more than an average Yearling Heifer did a
Yearling Bull cost? ____________
9. Round the average price of a Bull Calf to the nearest hundred
dollars. ____________
10. Do the same for the average price of a Yearling Bull.
____________
11. About how many times as valuable was that Yearling,
compared to the Calf? ____________
12. What was the most expensive Buffalo of all? ____________
The least expensive? ____________
13. How many Buffalo of all ages, male and female, got sold that
day in all? ____________
Part III What can you find out on your own?
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Click here
to get your Web of Life from the teacher's web
site at http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~mroy/puma/page37.htm . Go to
the school library and using the Key Word, endangered, pick
out a book about the animal that interests you and use it to help
complete your Web of Life.
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Click here
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http://www.newtunings.com/57/lessons/buffalo/Buffalo.ppt
Download the PowerPoint presentation and begin adding your
own research to it.
If you would like add your own research to this page, please e-mail
us: buffalo @ cs57.com