Yeah! That’s right. Wood buffaloes do live in Yakutia, i.e. in Siberia. They were transported in April 2006 from Edmonton, Canada. Since then the quantity of bisons was increased from 26 up to 39. 6 calves were born in 2008, and 7 in 2009. They are doing pretty well, have reacclimatized successfully on the land, where their ancestors had used to live thousands years ago.
They are not kept in a zoo. They live in a huge nursery by the Buotama River, almost 200 km south from Yakutsk. I was lucky to take pictures of rare animals on August 8, 2009. Here you can see just some of pics.
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