Jamestowners have decided it’s time for the world’s largest buffalo to have a name. Between now and April 15, you can submit your ideas to the Name That Buffalo contest and be eligible to receive a $1,000 award if your entry is selected.

The thing is, names are important. Names fill up our language and identify us to others. Are you really anybody…or anything without a name? This poor bison is known and loved by thousands but doesn’t have a name of his own. As a line from the Indigo Girls’ song says, “Oh the fear I’ve known that I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own.” To Shakespeare a rose may smell as sweet with any name, but this bison needs his own name and now you have the opportunity to help!