# Wild American Bison are captive?

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**Created:** [June 22, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wild-american-bison-are-captive/24143 "2021-06-22T04:55:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wild-american-bison-are-captive/24143/2 "2021-06-22T05:33:03Z")

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I agree that seems like quite an overreach on the term “captive”. If the animals are free-roaming and not in an enclosure of any kind I don’t know how one could call that captive. Would he consider free-flying California Condors as “captive”? Managed maybe, but not captive. “Managed” itself is also problematic because anything in a Wildlife Management Area…under his apparent definition…would also be captive. Perhaps he has a clearer definition of what he considers as captive and I would be interested to hear it!

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