 Historian Strabo referred to the Saiga as the "kolos", describing it as "between the deer and ram in size" which (understandably but wrongly) was believed to drink through its nose.Another animal which was extinct in Moldova since the 18th century until recently was the wisent.The species was reintroduced with the arrival of three European bison from Białowieża Forest in Poland several days before Moldova's Independence Day on August 27, 2005.