| Gaur | |
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| Bull | |
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| Cow and calf | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bos |
| Species: | B. gaurus
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| Binomial name | |
| Bos gaurus (Smith, 1827)
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| Present range | |
The gaur (Bos gaurus; /ɡaʊər/) is a large bovine native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, and has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1986. The global population was estimated at a maximum of 21,000 mature individuals in 2016, with the majority of those existing in India.[2]
It is the largest species among the wild cattle and the Bovidae.[3] The domesticated form of the gaur is called gayal (Bos frontalis) or mithun.[4]
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- ^ Hubback, T. R. (1937). "The Malayan gaur or seladang". Journal of Mammalogy. 18 (3): 267–279. doi:10.2307/1374203. JSTOR 1374203.
- ^ Nowak, R. M. (1999). "Gaur". Walker's Mammals of the World. Vol. 1. Baltimore, US and London, UK: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1158–1159. ISBN 9780801857898.