Gerald as regards the Bisons of the Great Plains – they were actually hunted into extinction as a strategy to starve the Plains people. Any one with a gun was paid to haul in buffalo heads.

so that is not an accurate example.

There are some grizzly historical accounts of this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buffalo-killers/482349/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/buffalo-slaughter