| Discovery Tours Touring the Black Hills in Style |
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North American Bison
Over 1200 bison roam free
through 72,000 acre Custer State Park. Often called "buffalo"
they are actually North American Bison. The first explorers and
fur trappers to enter the west had never seen creatures such as these.
They looked similar to the African Cape Buffalo or the Water
Buffalo of India, so they called them "buffalo" and the name stuck and
is still with us today. |
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North American Pronghorn Antelope
This fleet-footed animal of the
plains can often be seen in sections of Custer State Park. This
male has near trophy-sized horns (not antlers...horns do not fall off
and regrow like antlers of deer, elk, moose, etc.) |
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Big Horn Sheep
The rocky Mountain Big Horn
Sheep were transplanted into the Black Hills beginning in 1924.
This sheep replaced the Black Hills Audubon Sheep (a beautiful
sheep found only in the Black Hills...but was hunted to extinction by
1920).The wild sheep are often spotted on the roads running through Custer State Park. |