Nature · Smithsonian bull specimen · shoulder-height reference
How tall is American bison?
The Smithsonian describes the bull in Bison: Standing Strong as six feet tall at the shoulder. The scene converts that rounded specimen reference to meters.
≈ 1.8288 m
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- Museum-described shoulder height · nominal 6 feet
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- Smithsonian bull specimen · shoulder-height reference
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- A starting value for the illustration, not a universal or confirmed height.
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A little more perspective
The museum’s visual-description tour identifies the mounted bull and gives a six-foot shoulder height. Multiplying by exactly 0.3048 yields 1.8288 meters, but the decimals do not improve the original whole-foot description. This is a selected specimen reference rather than a species-wide average.
The hump over the shoulders supplies the highest point in this lowered-head illustration. The animal’s horns and shaggy face sit below it. The picture conveys a mature bull’s form without claiming to reproduce the mount’s exact hide, horn shape or skeletal geometry.
Quick facts
This American bison uses the Smithsonian’s six-foot shoulder-height description for its mounted bull specimen. That converts to 1.8288 meters, while the original measurement remains rounded.
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Sources and measurement notes
Six feet refers to the selected bull’s shoulder hump, not its horn tips.
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