the withers-height of the Gaur amounts approximately 210 cm, its weight for 1000 kg. The females are smaller than the males by one quarter. The Gaur is the biggest beef-type. The smooth, shiny fur is colored dun. Is the runs dirty-knows, they act as boots. The forehead-area is tan until straw-colored. Above the back-line, a protracted hump, that is supported by thorn-fort-sentences of the breast-fuss, rises between withers and back-middle. The bulls carry a double dewlap at chin and neck occasionally. The horns flattened out at the basis, its color is greenish know-yellow with black top, they are after the side and above approximately to a semicircle bent. The horns sit, with a bone-bulge as pedestals, on the forehead. With old bulls, the horn-tops are outworn.
The calves are bay with a black eel-line.
Spread, habitat Gaure live in forests of the mountain, and hill-country Vorder, and Hinterindiens. Furthermore, they are in bamboo-jungles, on fire-clearance-surfaces and in the high elephant-grass of the levels. Water-proximity is a need for them.
Way of life The herds of the Gaure consist of 1 or 2 old bulls and a number of cows and young that altogether it is 6 to 30 herd-members. Leader is an old cow mostly. Old males also live individually or in small associations. A bull takes over the defense of the herd. In the morning and in the afternoon, Gaure are on the food-search. Over midday, they rest in the shadow or avoid the insect-nuisance and climb further uphill. Gaure like to swim, however they don't wallow like the water-buffalos. Observers appear again and again with astonishment over the good Klettervermögen of such a heavy cow.
The Bankivahühner divide the habitat of the Gaure. The aware chickens warn of dangers. Admittedly, adult Gaure have not to fear any animal enemy, however there, where tigers still occur, fells half of the calves of this big-cat approximately to the victim. Gaure have a voice-contact-tone, a type of barking, that eases the cohesion of the herd in the unclear forest or jungles. With concern they let a subdued "Mu" sound. The warning-tone is a snort.
Gaure place themselves in regard to the fight by showing the opponent its impressive broadside. Opposite the human being, the Gaur appears shyly.
Reproduction The combination-time is not strict tied at a season. In front-India, most jungle-cows are combined between November and Februaries. Older bulls expel the younger. Many times the older wins through its Breitseits-Imponieren alone without a fight occurring. During the Brunft, the forest reverberates again from the frequently repeated Brunftschreien, that sound orgelnd and at which tubes of a red-stag remind.
The Tragzeit lasts 270-278 days. To the placing the single calf (twins are rare) for a few days, the cow retreats. Afterwards, the calf can follow the mother as run-young everywhere. Calves join together within a herd to a "kindergarten." With 3-4 years, Gaure are sexually mature, as an exception one year early.
Food Gaure eat grass. Bamboo is liked - and other grass-shoots, as they sprout after fire-clearances out of the earth. Foliage and herbs are also consumed by them.
Endangering As Kulturflüchter, the Gaur is above all through the increasing annihilation of the forests, but also still through direct Bejagung in its continuance seriously endangers.
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