#kouprey

[extinctcreaturesdaily]

today's daily is: the kouprey! (bos sauveli)

( requested by @vintagewildlife :] )

[dislocated-thumbs]

bovids we haven’t seen in a little while (tora hartebeest, saola, and kouprey)

note that the tora hartebeest reference is a reconstruction by José R Castelló in his book Bovids Of The World . there’s no real photos of a living specimen anywhere ! 🤷

We haven’t had a confirmed sighting of tora hartebeest in roughly 2 decades, the last saola photo was taken in 2013 (but William Robichaud has stated that locals in its range still see it), and the last confirmed kouprey sighting was in 1969 . All three are labelled as critically endangered

[vintagewildlife]

Kouprey By: Pierre Pfeffer From: The World Conservation Yearbook 1976

[bovinefigureoftheday]

Bovine figure of the day: Harriett Knibbs Kouprey

[dwollsadventures]

Monster Manual - Cattle, Wild

There are a few species of wild bovines, mostly concentrated in sup-tropical forests and plains. Adventurers rarely need to worry about them; they are wary around humans and show much more fear than normal cattle, having to worry about predators in the wild. It’s those that are used to human contact that need to be feared. Because they have been domesticated several times over, it’s difficult to determine which type of bovid can be classified as wild cattle. The zebu and gayal are sometimes found in feral herds, though descend from man-raised species. Gaur and banteng still retain wild populations. The kouprey, a fanciful species which sometimes displays frayed horn tips, is also a wild type. I've met forest folk who've said they’ve seen kouprey, though never seen any myself.

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That's right, ol Gygax took the space in his book for three separate entries for Bulls, Buffalo, and Wild Cattle. I'm done drawing bovids for now...

[otonkolos]

National animal of Cambodia 🇰🇭

[endlingmusings]

A young bull kouprey arrives at the Zoo de Vincennes, now known as the Parc zoologique de Paris, on the 7th of April, 1937. The bull had been captured from the wild just over a year earlier in July of 1936, somewhere in the northern region of Cambodia, and remains the only kouprey ever exhibited in captivity. [ x ]

[antiqueanimals]

John Leigh-Pemberton (1911-1997), Kouprey