Gaur
Gaur
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| ガウル | |||
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| AKA | Indian bison
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| Romaji | Gauru
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| Debut | Kemono Friends (2015 Game) | ||
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| Scientific Name | Bos gaurus
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| Distribution | Southeast Asia
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| Diet | Herbivore
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| Avg. Lifespan | 26 years
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| Read More | Gaur
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| Gaur | Nexon Game |
“I'm Gaur. It seems like I'm the tallest cow in the world, from what my friends told me. They recommended me to become a model, but, um... There's no way I could become a model... ... Ah, before becoming a model, I should change my indecisive personality first... ...”
—Gaur's introduction
Gaur is a type of Friend that appeared in the original Kemono Friends mobile game.
Appearance
She has a long brown hair that fades to darker brown tied with a bun at the back. She has a pair of white horns with black tips. Her eyes are dark brown. She wears a brown short-sleeved shirt that exposes her belly. She has a furry black collar and and a wine-red bowtie with a golden bell hanging from it, and a pair white gloves. She wears a short light brown skirt, brown leggings that fade into light brown at the bottom, white knee-high socks and white penny loafers. She has a weapon with white, black tipped horns that have navy-colored fur at the base. The weapon's stick is brown.
Series Appearances
| Media | Role | |
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| 2015 | Nexon Game | ↪ Minor character, playable |
In Real Life
The gaur has a head-and-body length of 250 to 330 cm with a 70 to 105 cm long tail, and is 142 to 220 cm high at the shoulder, averaging about 168 cm in females and 188 cm in males. At the top of its muscular hump just behind its shoulder, an average adult male is just under 200 cm tall and the male's girth at its midsection averages about 277 cm. Males are about one-fourth larger and heavier than females. Body mass can range widely from 440 to 1000 kg in adult females and 588 to 1500 kg in adult males.
The gaur has a strong and massively built species with a high convex ridge on the forehead between the horns, which protrudes anteriorly, causing a deep hollow in the profile of the upper part of the head. There is a prominent ridge on the back. The ears are very large; the tail only just reaches the hocks, and in old bulls the hair becomes very thin on the back. The adult male is dark brown, approaching black in very old individuals. The upper part of the head, from above the eyes to the nape of the neck, is ashy grey, or occasionally dirty white. The muzzle is pale coloured, and the lower part of the legs are pure white or tan.
Both sexes carry horns, which grow from the sides of the head, curving upwards. Between the horns is a high convex ridge on the forehead. At their bases they present an elliptical cross-section, a characteristic that is more strongly marked in bulls than in cows. The horns are decidedly flattened at the base and regularly curved throughout their length, and are bent inward and slightly backward at their tips. The colour of the horns is some shade of pale green or yellow throughout the greater part of their length, but the tips are black. The horns, of medium size by large bovid standards, grow to a length of 60 to 115 cm.
This species is native to South and Southeast Asia. They are largely confined to evergreen forests or semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, but also occur in deciduous forest areas at the periphery of their range. Gaur habitat is characterized by large, relatively undisturbed forest tracts.
They are basically diurnal. In other areas, they have become largely nocturnal due to forest molestation caused by humans. Gaur herds are led by an old adult female, the matriarch. Adult males may be solitary. During the peak of the breeding season, unattached males wander widely in search of receptive females.
Wild gaur graze and browse on a wider variety of plants than any other ungulate species of India, with a preference for the upper portions of plants, such as leaf blades, stems, seeds and flowers of grass species.