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  • noun Plural form of gaur.

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Examples

  • They include Gobi bears, endangered cattle breeds such as gaurs and bantengs, mountain gorillas, pandas, a California grey whale and condors.

    The Frozen Zoo aiming to bring endangered species back from the brink 2010

  • We ` ve heard that, when the female gaurs, of which about 25 percent of the guards at San Quentin, or at least in the California state system, are female, when they walk by, he seems to, quote, "light up."

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2005 2005

  • In the past, gaurs associated in loose herds of up to 400 animals, but today groups of only 5 to 12 animals are normally found.

    6 Wild Banteng 1983

  • Even in the remotest hill forests gaurs are harassed by hunting, exposed to the diseases of domestic cattle, and driven from their natural habitat by human invasion.

    6 Wild Banteng 1983

  • In common with other wild bovids, gaurs habitually visit mineral licks, which appear to be necessary to their habitat and influence the herd's movements.

    6 Wild Banteng 1983

  • Adult gaurs are strong enough to defend themselves against a predator as powerful as a tiger.

    6 Wild Banteng 1983

  • Feral mithan live in the same habitat as gaurs and are said to move equally skillfully in mountainous terrain.

    1 Domesticated Banteng 1983

  • For example, gaurs will feed in agricultural fields, along roadsides, and near occupied houses.

    6 Wild Banteng 1983

  • The genial night, wi balmy breath, gaurs verdure spring anew,

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • The park has a wide wildlife with elephants, tigers, leopards, bears and gaurs in mountainous landscapes with limestone cliffs.

    EzineArticles 2010

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