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By the time the horrors of World War I had come to an end, there were only 54 European bison left anywhere in the world (Olech 2009). All that remained on what is today Polish territory were three bison in the private animal collection of the von Hochberg family in Pszczyna.
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Krasińska, M., Krasiński, Z.A. (2013). The Restitution of Bison in Captive Breeding in Poland. In: European Bison. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36555-3_22
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