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The gaur (, Bos gaurus ), also called Indian bison , is the largest extant bovine , native to South Asia and Southeast Asia . The species has been listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1986, as the population decline in parts of the species' range ...
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n. An East Indian species of wild cattle ((taxlink Bos gaurus species noshow=1)), of large size and an untamable disposition.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Gaur \Gaur\ (g[add]r or gour), n. [Native name.] (Zo["o]l.) An East Indian species of wild cattle ( Bibos gauris ), of large size and an untamable disposition. [Spelt also gour .]
Usage examples of gaur.
Ilna doubted the story about them looting the ships, or at any rate doubted that was the whole truth, simply because Gaur had said it.
For an instant she thought he was wearing animal skins hair-side out, but that was a trick of the dim light: Gaur was nude and covered with fur like a beast.
According to Hodgson it also occurs in the Himalayan Terai, probably however only towards the eastern portion, and here it is rare, for I have spoken to many sportsmen who have hunted in various parts of the Terai, from Sikhim to Rohilkund, and none have ever come across the gaur at the foot of the Himalayas.
Central provinces the gaur is found in several parts of the bamboo-clad spurs of the Satpura range.
The gaur seldom leaves its jungles, but I have known it do so on the borders of the Sonawani forest, in order to visit a small tank at Untra near Ashta, and the cultivation in the vicinity suffered accordingly.
In the skull the forehead is not concave as in the gaur, but flat, and if anything rather convex.
I was always the first to climb to the highest branch or leap from the tallest ledge into a pool or run the closest past a gaur as he snorted in his pen.
Raj placed the accent, Gaur County, about halfway up the Hemmar River.
This bull stood six-foot-four at the shoulders, and I thought the gaur was a sort of diminutive goat.
The postilion had already shown Thanakar their destination on a map, a small village north of Gaur, two hundred miles northwest of the city.
Once freed from the first bog, it became stuck thrice more before the tiny village of Gaur came into view.
In places, herds of gaur, bur, dang, and arne milled about in mud pools up to their thick necks, mooing and lowing at the passing humans.
Burmah, and the horns are mostly short and thick, and very massive as compared with those of the Indian gaurs, though the distinction is not constant on either side of the Bay of Bengal.
Why Eurasia’s five species of wild cattle (aurochs, water buffalo, yak, gaur, banteng), but not the African buffalo or American bison?
Why Eurasia's five species of wild cattle (aurochs, water buffalo, yak, gaur, banteng), but not the African buffalo or American bison?