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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Gaur

Bos gaurus C.H.Smith, 1827

Gaur (Bos gaurus), boynuzlugiller (Bovidae) familyasından bugün en büyük popülasyonu Hindistan'da olan bir sığır türüdür. Yerli halk tarafından seladang, gayal veya mithun diye de çağrılır. Bazen Hint bizonu olarak isimlendirilebilir.

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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Family tree

  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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