Obama Signs Law Making Bison the First National Mammal (Published 2016)
www.nytimes.com
The United States has named its first national mammal, giving the title to a species that once stretched from the forests of Alaska to the grasslands of Mexico.

Despite, only this year they will finally make the bald eagle the national bird. Which, I also learned that they are not official symbols until a President signs a document for them to be. It is just a recognized symbol but not official. (Just my opinion but why do they really need a bill for this? What changes would making anything like this official really do?)

Here is a list of other US symbols (article includes links to other countries of the world national symbols, some official, some not made official) if you are interested:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_symbols_of_the_United_States

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1210·
    2 days ago

    He really picked the animal systematically slaughtered by colonizers for the purpose of starving and controlling the indigenous peoples America genocided. What could be more American I guess

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      2 days ago

      perhaps it was meant as a way to pay honor to the species rather than forgotten completely?

      nahhh, you’re probably right. Obama was a malicious sadistic cock sucker of a president that actually took great pleasure in hunting endangered species.

      /s

      • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        I wasn’t suggesting he did this out of malice I was suggesting he did this with zero regard for how it might be viewed by American natives

        Edit: did not see the /s but my point stands.

    • Theo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      Countries have national animals, if you look on the list of other countries’ animals, you can see it is usually because they are the most common or most unique in some way.