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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Gaur

Bos gaurus C.H.Smith, 1827

Гаур (лат. Bos gaurus) — крупнейший представитель рода настоящих быков. Одомашнен человеком, одомашненная форма называется гаял (другие варианты названия — митхун или митхан, Международным союзом охраны природы рассматривается как самостоятельный вид Bos frontalis и исключается из анализа ситуации с диким видом).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Also called
Bos gaurus, Indian Bison
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
813 kg
Body length
3 m
Shoulder height
1.93 m
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Everything we know about the Gaur

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
813 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
3 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Shoulder height
1.93 m1.65–2.2 m · typical rangenot stated
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"Shoulder height is 1.65 to 2.2 meters." Range-only; value is the midpoint. ADW files the gaur under the synonym Bos frontalis; no account exists under Bos gaurus.

Source: Lundrigan & Zachariah 2000, Animal Diversity Web account: Bos frontalis (gaur), https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Bos_frontalis/ · see citation

Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Generation length
8.99 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
1.7 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
275 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.86 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
813 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Gaur yet: top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyBovidae
  6. ›genusBos
  7. ›speciesBos frontalis
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. familyBovidae
  4. subfamilyBovinae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderRuminantia
  13. infraorderPecora
  14. familyBovidae
  15. subfamilyBovinae
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Closest relative on this site
🦬 American bison — last shared an ancestor ≈ 3.4 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Gaur (de), 印度野牛 (zh), Gaur indyjski (pl), Gaur (fr), גאור (he), 인도들소 (ko) … and 26 more languages
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