The Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City is morning the loss of a female gaur, which passed away on Saturday. A necropsy performed later in the day indicated that gaur, named Jeri, had a chronic ...

A wild ox Gaur spotted in Chitwan. Photo: BABU RAM LAMICHHANE On the morning of 4 May, I got a call from the chief warden of Kosi Tappu Wildlife Reserve in eastern Nepal. He wanted me to verify a ...

The Bovini species comprise both domestic and wild cattle species. Published phylogenies of this tribe based on mitochondrial DNA contain anomalies, while nuclear sequences show only low variation. We ...

It is not uncommon in India to see cattle grazing in farms and backyards, ruminating by the road, or even causing a minor inconvenience to vehicles. Replace cattle with herds of gaur (Indian bison) ...

Sri Lanka has proposed that the Indian government can assist by providing six specimens of the gaur — a bull, and three to five cows — for captive breeding over a five-year period NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka ...

Have you ever heard of a gaur? It’s the largest living member of the bovine family. A large gaur bull can weigh more than a ton and a half. His body may be nearly 11 feet long and he may be more than ...

Roads, railway tracks and other human-driven land use changes have disrupted genetic connectivity between populations of the gaur, the largest wild cattle species in India, enhancing the risk of their ...

A census of Gaurs (Bos gaurus), the largest and most powerful of all wild cattle, in Chitwan National Park from 17-18 April has put their number at 296, showing an increase of 98 from the last count a ...

The news item “India considers Sri Lankan proposal for translocating ‘Indian bisons’” in the Daily Mirror recently (correctly) attributes this initiative in part to a proposal made by me. So that this ...