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of the B. b. bonasus subspecies being shot in the Bialowieza Forest (on today's Belarus-Poland border) in 1921. The last of the Caucasian wisent subspecies (B. b. caucasicus) was shot in the northwestern Caucasus in 1927. The Carpathian wisent (B. b. hungarorum) had been hunted to extinction by 1852. The Bialowieza or lowland European bison was kept alive in captivity, and

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