All about Gaur (Bos gaurus)

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(04-29-2020, 04:07 AM)parvez Wrote: @Pckts You mean the 90cms horn one was only 1106kgs? I highly doubt it. May be the capacity scales were only around 1-1.2 tons. Then the one whose picture I posted must be having around 90-100cms horn. Its length then is surely beyond 11 feet. That must be a record sized specimen in every way.

I had a little list of horn spread and weight related, and I can tell you that horn length and weight is not correlated based on these measurements. Check these figures from India:

a. Horn spread: 36 in - 91.4 cm -- Weight: 2438 lb - 1,106 kg.
b. Horn spread: 34 in - 86.4 cm -- Weight: 1966 lb - 891 kg.
c. Horn spread: 37 in - 94.0 cm -- Weight: 1530 lb - 694 kg.
d. Horn spread: 34 in - 86.4 cm -- Weight: 1900 lb - 861.8 kg.
e. Horn spread: 33.5 in - 85.1 cm -- Weight: 1720 lb - 780.2 kg.
f.  Horn spread: 36 in - 91.4 cm -- Weight: 1700 lb - 771.1 kg.

Also remember that, according with Morris (1947) his bulls were weighed piecemeal, so there is probability that the bulls could weight a little more.


The thing is that I guess that those measurements are probably of the largest horn, as Van Ingen & Van Ingen (1945) reported a large gaur head with a horn lengths from tip to tip of 72 in (182.9 cm), the left horn was 28 in (71.1 cm) and the right horn of 27.5 in (69.8 cm). Check the picture:

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Just for mere curiosity, as I don't like to collect horn or antler measurements, Nowak (1999) sais that the horn length of the gaur can be between 60 - 115 cm without quoting his sources. Schaller (1967) reported that one of the largest bulls seen at Kanha (which was killed by a tiger) was 24 inches (61 cm) and he quotes Rowland Ward (1922) when he says that the world record horn was of 31.5 in (80 cm). I checked the edition of 1914 of Rowland Ward and I saw that the longest horn measured by Mr Ward and taken outside the curve was of 34.75 in (88.3 cm), now from "owner's measurements" the longest is a horn of 40.5 in (102.9 cm). Finally, checking the book of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar (1908) recorded that the biggest horns measured 81.875 in (208 cm) from tip to tip around the external curve, the biggest horn was of 32.125 in (81.6 cm). However Rowland Ward (1914) repored an even bigger horn spread for other bull, also from the Maharaja (hunted after his book was published, probably), that measured 84 in (213.4 cm) from tip to tip, and interestingly this is not the largest bull, so probably was also not the heaviest.

So, this is the information that I found regarding horn length, weight and horn size from tip to tip. Reply