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RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Ashutosh - 08-06-2021

Bandipur:







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Radhanagri Wildlife Sanctuary (northern Western Ghats):




RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Ashutosh - 09-06-2021

Excellent Gaur tussle, Nilgiris. The part when one of them hooks the horn below the other one and lifts him completely off the ground is so impressive considering how much they weigh!!!




RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Incogray - 10-28-2021

Fully grown male gaurs remind me of silver back among other gorilla, they look so massive then the others. Those muscle in them are insane.


RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Incogray - 10-28-2021

How big is a fully grown male gaur compared to rhinos?


RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Pckts - 01-13-2022

(10-28-2021, 08:21 PM)Incogray Wrote: How big is a fully grown male gaur compared to rhinos?

A little taller at the shoulder but much less robust and shorter in length.


RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Jimmy - 02-05-2022

(01-13-2022, 10:33 PM)Pckts Wrote:
(10-28-2021, 08:21 PM)Incogray Wrote: How big is a fully grown male gaur compared to rhinos?

A little taller at the shoulder but much less robust and shorter in length.

Here they are






RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Pckts - 02-05-2022

(02-05-2022, 06:45 PM)Jimmy Wrote:
(01-13-2022, 10:33 PM)Pckts Wrote:
(10-28-2021, 08:21 PM)Incogray Wrote: How big is a fully grown male gaur compared to rhinos?

A little taller at the shoulder but much less robust and shorter in length.

Here they are



It always amazes me how big these Rhinos actually are. I hope to see them in the wild instead of captivity. I bet this Rhino is probably still relative young since it’s horn seems smaller still as well as it’s sex unknown yet it almost looks taller at the shoulder than the Gaur and most likely double it’s weight.


RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Rage2277 - 03-02-2022

https://www.wii.gov.in/images/publications/researchreports/2011/reintroduction_gaur_report.pdf reintroduction of gaur report


RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - GuateGojira - 03-03-2022

(02-05-2022, 09:28 PM)Pckts Wrote: It always amazes me how big these Rhinos actually are. I hope to see them in the wild instead of captivity. I bet this Rhino is probably still relative young since it’s horn seems smaller still as well as it’s sex unknown yet it almost looks taller at the shoulder than the Gaur and most likely double it’s weight.


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To feed your imagination. And are bigger in the wild! shocked 

In the book of Dr Dinerstein of 2003 there are a couple of pictures that shows huge specimens. I think you have it too.


RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Pckts - 03-03-2022

(03-03-2022, 12:49 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:
(02-05-2022, 09:28 PM)Pckts Wrote: It always amazes me how big these Rhinos actually are. I hope to see them in the wild instead of captivity. I bet this Rhino is probably still relative young since it’s horn seems smaller still as well as it’s sex unknown yet it almost looks taller at the shoulder than the Gaur and most likely double it’s weight.


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To feed your imagination. And are bigger in the wild! shocked 

In the book of Dr Dinerstein of 2003 there are a couple of pictures that shows huge specimens. I think you have it too.

I actually fed one at the SD Zoo

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RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Lycaon - 03-03-2022

@Pckts  Quick question how does a rhino feel like? must have been a nice experience.


RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Pckts - 03-03-2022

(03-03-2022, 01:08 AM)Lycaon Wrote: @Pckts  Quick question how does a rhino feel like? must have been a nice experience.

We weren't allowed to touch him but he did turn around and projectile urinate a foot in front of my wife lol. They actually pee backwards oddly enough.
In regards to his size, I'm 6'5'' and I'd say at his shoulder he was probably about 6'.
He was really long too, seemed to be as a long as a Jeep Cherokee and just about as wide as the wheel base. 
He was absolutely gigantic, they were getting rid of him because the female had a calf and he was becoming too dangerous in trying to breed again so they sold him to another zoo for breeding.


RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Rage2277 - 03-27-2022







RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Jimmy - 03-30-2022

Is this a real or fake image, not trying to discredit the photographer bt i couldnt find more clicks of this supposedly 'very rare interaction' of megaherbivores
Pic by Mathuranath dey
Location: Manas national park

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Gaurs are said to be the bigger species than Wild water buffaloes but the latter are no joke either, i saw the trophy head of these two, took a quick photo and buffaloe's head definetely look overall bigger

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Notice also the great Tibetan sheep Argali as well


RE: All about Gaur (Bos gaurus) - Ashutosh - 03-30-2022

Don’t think this is fake. Manas does have all the big 4 herbivores of Indian subcontinent. Gaurs typically don’t venture into the long grass and they prefer wooded areas.

Even Kaziranga has a small Gaur population. But, they are very rarely seen like Kaziranga leopards.