gaur
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Etymology
Origin of gaur
1800–10; < Hindi < Sanskrit gaura
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Three other species have been cloned for conservation: a Przewalski’s horse named Kurt, and two types of Southeast Asian cattle under threat, the gaur and the banteng.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 11, 2022
Ah!” – and pointed to his desktop background, a picture of himself feeding and petting an enormous gaur in the Indian state of Nagaland.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2015
In the first hunting lesson, she typically selects a smaller form of prey—a chital, for example, rather than big game like gaur or water buffalo.
From Slate ● May 10, 2013
Stuart said the same approach could be applied to a variety of species in Asia, including the wild water buffalo, several types of primates and the gaur, the world's largest cattle.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2010
In the open: Alaskan brown bears, the grizzly bears, lion, tiger, elephant, leopard, wolf, African buffalo, Indian gaur and buffalo, and gorilla.
From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple
Anteaters, hedgehoglike animals called tenrecs, and rabbitlike hyraxes are doing fine, but gaurs, sloth bears, Bactrian camels, and bearded pigs are not.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2016
To increase the gaur's chances of survival, they picked a likely mother from the zoo's own small gaur herd�its 17 members, including the latest addition, account for about 10% of all the gaurs in captivity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cows have given birth to gaurs before, but this is the first time that one animal species is acting as surrogate mother to a clone--an exact genetic duplicate--of a different species.
From Time Magazine Archive
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