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Excerpt from The Indo-Chinese Forest Ox or Kouprey
As far as I can determine this is the first specimen of the kouprey that has been available for comparison and detailed description in any natural history museum. The present memoir deals with this most remarkable bovid.
The history of our ten-year knowledge of the animal is detailed in the Historical Appendix.
In the comparative description the kouprey is compared with a gaur and bantin shot within 200 km. Of the same locality, for before the discovery of the kouprey these were the only two living kinds of wild taurine cattle from the forests of southeastern Asia (i regard the gayal as a semi-domesticated descendant of the gaur).
In my external comparison of these three forms I have described the kouprey hide in considerable detail. The principal significant external differences by which the kouprey differs from the two others are limited to the marking of the lower legs, the peculiar horns with their relation to the skull, and the elongated tail.
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As far as I can determine this is the first specimen of the kouprey that has been available for comparison and detailed description in any natural history museum. The present memoir deals with this most remarkable bovid.
The history of our ten-year knowledge of the animal is detailed in the Historical Appendix.
In the comparative description the kouprey is compared with a gaur and bantin shot within 200 km. Of the same locality, for before the discovery of the kouprey these were the only two living kinds of wild taurine cattle from the forests of southeastern Asia (i regard the gayal as a semi-domesticated descendant of the gaur).
In my external comparison of these three forms I have described the kouprey hide in considerable detail. The principal significant external differences by which the kouprey differs from the two others are limited to the marking of the lower legs, the peculiar horns with their relation to the skull, and the elongated tail.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr.
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ISBN - 9780331595109
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 161
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Author
Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr.
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781334747151
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 163
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