{"id":31621,"date":"2025-09-19T21:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31621\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:49:06","slug":"trail-cams-leave-park-officials-elated-as-rare-gaur-seen-thriving-in-forest-worlds-largest-bovine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31621\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Cams Leave Park Officials Elated as Rare Gaur Seen Thriving in Forest\u2013World’s Largest Bovine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Trail cam footage -Released by Thailand Department of National Parks Wildlife and Plant Conservation<\/p>\n

Thai wildlife officials are heartened by the site of the world\u2019s largest bovine leading her calves down a forest trail.<\/p>\n

The camera trap footage shows that conservation is working: that gaur are reproducing in numbers in the country\u2019s Huai Kha Khaeng Forest, and that there\u2019s enough food and habitat to facilitate that.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The beast remains widely dispersed and in healthy numbers in parts of India, but faraway Thailand boasts a lot less space.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the UNESCO-listed Huai Kha Khaeng spans 1.4 million acres, and decades<\/a> of conservation work have made it an enduring refuge for not only gaur, but elephants and tigers as well.<\/p>\n

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The nation\u2019s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation shared camera trap footage of the 4 animals moving down the trail on Facebook.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

WATCH the video below\u2026 <\/p>\n

SHARE The Good News About The World\u2019s Largest Bovine\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trail cam footage -Released by Thailand Department of National Parks Wildlife and Plant Conservation Thai wildlife officials are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1664,12543,61,60,5496,82,1667,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-31621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-conservation","9":"tag-forests","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-parks","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-thailand","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}