When escaping from a chase, the animal easily jumps over fallen trees or a meter -long ditch, and in zoos, standing on its hind legs or running, it can climb over a fence 2-3 meters high.
Bison, unlike bison, live in very small herds. Matriarchy reigns in the herd: the head of the flock is the elderly, most experienced female, who determines the herd’s feeding or resting areas. If she stops and raises her head, listening carefully to nature, immediately the entire herd also freezes. And no one will dare to move until she starts moving. Basically, these animals are sedentary; they slowly move from one place to another in search of food. The herd walks through the snow one after another, breaking through huge corridors in its thickness. Mature bulls stay solitary for most of the year; only during the rutting season, each of them joins one or another herd, taking on the responsibilities of a leader and driving away other adult males from it.
The bison almost repeated the sad story of its relative and “neighbor” "through European forests - a wild bull-tour. By the beginning of the 20th century, there were practically no bison left in nature; only a few individuals miraculously survived in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Now the bison population is gradually recovering.

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