Having been a custom meat cutter in a family business while in high school and college, I've cut up several of the things for the freezer. Some think the hump on top of the shoulders is fat but in fact it is caused by an elongation of the vertebral "feather" bones that supports pure muscle! Those shoulder muscles and the Ligamentum Nuchae (the large ligiment that supports the head on animals like horses, cows, etc.) help to support that massive head.
The last one I butchered was harvested off of a Bison farm by three drunk "Elks Lodge" brothers who were providing it for a annual "Buffalo Feed". They went into the pasture and shot the animal between the eyes with a
.270 Winchester. The bison only looked up to see who had just smacked him in the head. Another shot and now the animal was angry. He ran away from them, through a wire fence, and into the woods. As I cut up the animal, the "now mostly sober" Elks leadership watched. I mentioned I had never tasted buffalo up to that point. They gave me two very nice Porterhouse steaks, one for my wife! We took them to a party for the employees of the newspaper my wife worked at. Boy, were they good!
