Word: gaur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, Bao Dai's favorite sport (in addition to chasing chorus girls) was tracking down tigers, elephants and gaur (fierce wild buffalo) on foot through the jungle. That took intelligence and guts. Both traits are needed in the fierce jungle of Viet Namese politics, and Bao Dai is displaying both. The Communist radio had predicted that he would be assassinated; the French authorities were so concerned that at public ceremonies they kept the crowds 100 yards from His Majesty and gave him an armored car. But Bao Dai scorned such protection. At Hanoi, which he proclaimed his capital...
...newly discovered ox possesses extremely primitive physical features which place the animal close to the ancient ancestral line of modern domestic cattle and as a form which probably branched off the main cattle family stem, before the bison, yak, zebu, gaur, and bantin about ten million years back, in the middle pliocene period...