A water buffalo who escaped as his owner tried to slaughter him became a folk hero-type figure in Iowa last week as the animal — who was also shot by police — was on the run for days. Residents in ...

Gardiner, Montana. Shortly after capturing over 300 wild bison at the Stephen’s Creek Capture facility, Yellowstone has sent two trailer loads to a slaughterhouse in Helena. As of Monday night, the ...

Iowa Farm Sanctuary cofounder Jered Camp smiles as he gives PHill the water buffalo some attention Nov. 22 at the sanctuary near Oxford. PHill is named after Pleasant Hill, where he was captured after ...

A water buffalo that went rogue and became an overnight celebrity in the Des Moines metro area after it escaped its owner moments before it was destined for slaughter was caught alive Wednesday. The ...

I watched a PBS documentary by Ken Burns on the extermination of the American buffalo in the nineteenth century. Buffalos by the millions roamed the plains for millennia. Buffalo and Native Americans ...

The mass slaughter of North American bison by settlers of European descent is a well-known ecological disaster. An estimated eight million bison roamed the United States in 1870, but just 20 years ...

A hundred years ago, Buffalo was home to stockyards, cattle drives through city streets and nearly 30 slaughterhouses. We have come a long way since then. Today, the story of Buffalo is that of a city ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) -- In one flying leap, a buffalo brought for butchering cleared a slaughterhouse's 8-foot fence and made a run for safety. Lindon Mickelsen, the owner of the slaughterhouse, said ...

At a recent City Hall meeting addressing the proposed halal slaughterhouse on Broadway, I sat beside a senior resident of that community. Using her walker on this wintry day, fearful of public ...