One of the perks of obsessing over Farmville is that every once in awhile, one learns some odd new fact about international flora and fauna. For example, if not for Farmville I would not know that daikon is a Japanese radish. This might be important information, in some unfathomable context.
Today's farming knowledge nugget is that bison are (supposedly) native to Switzerland. I live in the American West so that was news to me. Naturally I googled for confirmation. Sure enough, there is a town called Bison over there. Switzerland is also home to the Bison Ranch, whose page at the website myswitzerland.com proudly boasts under a photo of these large and familiar looking beasts "An exotic experience, almost the same as zipping across the Atlantic: what you see here is in fact a splendid herd of American bison!"
So do bison more naturally belong amid Alps or Rockies? I am confused.
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