In 2006, 30 bison calves were flown from Edmonton, Alberta to Yakutsk.
Bison meat sometimes fetches about double the price of beef, and bison calves often bring triple the price of beef calves at fall auctions.
Where possible, bison calves will be captured, neutered and sold at auction.
They had pulled down a yearling bison calf, nearly full-grown, but not fully developed.
There are two bison calves (male and female) and a prairie dog colony.
At the Zoo A three-week-old American bison calf named Hanes is one of the newest of about 800 additions to the Bronx Zoo's 4,000-animal population each year.
The plan would also require agents of the Montana Department of Livestock to capture and neuter the bison calves and sell them.
Two chocolate-brown bison calves, lying next to a busy highway, munched on carrots that someone had thrown them as Donna Lane drove by the other day.
On one occasion he was able to drive two wolves from a downed bison calf, and feast on the meat.
A bison calf was rented from a local ranch and ran along the sidelines.