Encyclopedia > Gaur

  Article Content

Gaur

Gaur
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Family:Bovidae
Genus:Bos
Species:gaurus
Binomial name
Bos gaurus

Gaur (Bos gaurus) is a large, dark-coated wild ox of hilly areas of southeast Asia that is also called seladang.

An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition. Spelt also gour.

A wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
DB

... is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 20.7 ms