Word: kouprey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard kouprey, an old adult bull, was shot by Mr. Francois Edmond-Blanc, member of a Franco-American scientific expedition to Indo-China. The ox was presented to the Museum of Comparative Zoology by James C. Greenway, Jr. of the Museum staff, who was also a member of the expedition...
Scientists interested in tracing the development and spread of modern domesticated cattle have long sought such evolutionary records as are found in the kouprey, but had hoped best to discover such records in fossils, Mr. Coolidge reported. Finding such a form still surviving in its native habitat is of striking scientific interest...
...paper reports an estimate of only about one thousand head of kouprey still surviving in the forests of southern Indo-China, which means that this scientifically important genus will probably become extinct unless immediate government protection is provided...
...very unusual for so primitive a form to survive without a completely isolated habitat, such as an island, but the jungle area inhabitated by the kouprey is comparatively little hunted by white men, Mr. Coolidge states...
...kouprey is the first new genus of large living mammal to be discovered since the Okapi was found by Sir Harry Johnston in the Belgian Congo...