Size comparisons

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(01-10-2019, 07:00 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(01-10-2019, 06:53 PM)Shadow Wrote:

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(01-10-2019, 01:27 PM)Jimmy Wrote:

(01-10-2019, 12:12 AM)brotherbear Wrote: An interesting comparison might be a bull gaur compared to a great Indian one-horned rhinoceros.

here, i included banteng also to comprehend the size difference -the shoulder height given for banteng in Wikipedia is quite low at 5.6ft, which makes them tiny compared to these two  behemoths, maybe some specimen could go up to 6 ft, that would make sense

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It is still quite impressive, that biggest bull gaurs can be heavier than average female rhinos. I remember seeing in more than one place mentioned, that female rhinos in India are in average about 1600 kg. And biggest bull gaurs are said to weight in exceptional cases even 1700 kg. If that animal would happen to run full speed to side of bull rhino, it for sure would feel it. I wander if there is some reason why so difficult to find photos about these two species nearby each others? I have no idea, just thinking, that maybe too close match and two species known to be aggressive too time to time. But if someone has knowledge, maybe that could be discussed in gaur thread, not here.

There are very few places where they overlap and the few where they do Gaur numbers are low.  Water Buffalo and Rhino cross paths much more than Gaur. Water Buffalo are very close in size compared to Gaur for scaling purposes.

Ok, that of course explains a lot. I am not so interested about size comparisons in this case, but more about interaction in wild. Interesting species.

I'd imagine it's like anywhere else, most of the time herbivores graze peacefully, sometimes you have individuals who become aggressive, usually young males coming into their own, males during the mating season or protective mothers and in those instances the bigger you are the more you get to make the rules. Rhinos have notoriously bad attitudes, and the only thing moving them around would be the Elephants.

Or a pack of gaurs in anger might do the job too. If they are acting like wild dogs for instance and making attacks from multiple directions same time. So there might be also something like mutual respect depending on numbers of animals present at certain places same time. I think also, that more probably they ignore each others and maybe sometimes rhinos can be bullies, but if gaurs act like with tigers have been seen, a single rhino could have troubles and have to retreat also time to time. Rhinos can be seen more often in small numbers or alone than gaurs, I think. But if I find something, I post it in gaur thread, so that not disturbing comparison thread too much :) Reply