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In concluding these details of the Gayal and Gyall, let it be remarked that, when we hear one animal called Gayal and another Gyall, we are not, _on that account merely_, to set them down as of the same species.
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Gayal, which is deposited in the Museum of the Hon.
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Hybrids between Gaur and Gayal and between Gayal and Banteng as zoological rarities in Thailand.
Chapter 9 1983
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Horsfield gives the following names under his _Bibos asseel_: _As'l Gayal_, Hindi; _Seloi_, Kuki;
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The Gayal affords the richest milk, and prefers feeding on trees.
Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals R. Lee 1865
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In reference to the case of Mr. Bird's Gayal breeding with the common
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The representation of the Gayal here given was taken from a living specimen in the Zoological Gardens, 1846.
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To the preceding observations of Dr. Traill, I have to add the important fact (which of itself will be sufficient to constitute a specific difference between the Gaur and the Gayal), namely, that in the skeleton of the Gaur there are only thirteen pairs of ribs, whilst the skeleton of the Gayal possesses fourteen pairs.
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By them he is called Shial, from which, most probably, his name of Gayal [Gyall] is derived; as he is never seen on the plains, except when he is brought there.
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British Museum (see p. 97), than it does to the Gyall (_Bos frontalis_ of Lambert, see p. 51), or to the Gayal, which died in the Zoological
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