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KEARNEY, Mo. — <\/span>The national mammal of the United States is getting in on America’s 250th birthday<\/a> celebration. <\/p>\n

Three bison statues cast in bronze have taken up a permanent display outside the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of Natural History in Washington. The pieces \u2014 which are larger than real-life bison \u2014 made their public debut in the nation’s capital on Friday. <\/p>\n

The bison earned its official status<\/a> as the nation’s mammal under a law signed by former President Obama in 2016. Millions of bison once roamed the Great Plains but were nearly driven to extinction in the 1800s. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful story of conservation working, it\u2019s a story of people seeing a need and getting behind that to conserve an animal that is specific to North America,\u201d said Gary Staab, a paleoartist who made the statues. <\/p>\n

Staab designed and sculpted the statues in Kearney, Missouri, where he works full-time to create sculptures of animals and historical artifacts for museums around the world. For the bison, Staab sculpted the full-size statues in foam and clay before they were cast in bronze and assembled at a foundry in Colorado. The three statues depict a bull, a cow and a calf. <\/p>\n

He said it took about four months to complete the sculptures \u2014 a time frame he called \u201clighting fast\u201d given the size of the pieces. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey really represent a really unbelievably beautiful and unique thing about North America,\u201d Staab said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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