Due to gross similarities in size, food preference, and appearance, it is often asserted that bison and domestic cattle are ecological analogues.
Not surprisingly, because of the assumed similarities between the two animals, it is claimed that cattle are nothing more than domestic bison. Since bison herbivory was an important ecological influence upon many grassland ecosystems, many people assume that properly managed cattle have no negative impacts upon western rangelands, in part because they are thought to mimic bison herbivory pressures.
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