Trail cam footage -Released by Thailand Department of National Parks Wildlife and Plant Conservation
Thai wildlife officials are heartened by the site of the world’s largest bovine leading her calves down a forest trail.
The camera trap footage shows that conservation is working: that gaur are reproducing in numbers in the country’s Huai Kha Khaeng Forest, and that there’s enough food and habitat to facilitate that.
The gaur was once widely distributed across south and southeast Asia, but is today seriously fragmented. Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand all have small populations nestled in evergreen hills, and are generally considered vulnerable.
The beast remains widely dispersed and in healthy numbers in parts of India, but faraway Thailand boasts a lot less space.
Nevertheless, the UNESCO-listed Huai Kha Khaeng spans 1.4 million acres, and decades of conservation work have made it an enduring refuge for not only gaur, but elephants and tigers as well.
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The nation’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation shared camera trap footage of the 4 animals moving down the trail on Facebook.
The largest extant bovines, gaur can grow 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh over 2,000 pounds. The horns of the bulls grow to be the largest of any animal on Earth.
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