kouprey

There are estimated to be fewer than 50 kouprey left in the world.

There are no kouprey in any of the world's zoos.

A report on the extinction of the Kouprey, later found to be incorrect.

But he also suggested that the kouprey both groups studied might itself have been a banteng-kouprey cross.

The kouprey is the national animal of Cambodia.

But if the kouprey is not a species, then the word "extinction" does not have its usual meaning.

Kouprey have tall, but narrow, bodies, long legs and humped backs.

He is most notable for discovering the Kouprey.

Several say the paper misinterpreted the genetics and history of the kouprey, which may still exist in domesticated form.

Resolving a zoological mystery: the kouprey is a real species, Proc.

A very large ungulate, the Kouprey can approach similar sizes to the wild Asian water buffalo.

However, no kouprey have been sighted since 1983, and during the last decade, several searches for the animal have proven fruitless.

Although the kouprey reproduced in the wild, they were in decline almost from the moment of their escape from domesticity.

It is also possible the kouprey was a naturally occurring species whose females, as its numbers declined, mated occasionally with banteng.

In the 1930's, the kouprey trotted like a revelation out of the forests of central Indochina and into the world of modern science.

Dr. Hassanin said several indigenous Asian breeds of cattle might be derived from kouprey.

It is hoped that the kouprey, a rare species of primitive cattle, still lives here, though it's been more than 30 years since the last official sighting.

Genetically solving a zoological mystery: was the kouprey (Bos sauveli) a feral hybrid?

A clarification about the morphology of the horns of the female kouprey: a new unknown bovid species from Cambodia.

The 2008 IUCN report lists the kouprey as critically endangered (possibly extinct).

Kouprey (Bos sauveli)

Bos sauveli (kouprey or Grey ox)

Trekking through the Cambodian outback in search of the Kouprey, Chicago Tribune - 19 December 1999.

Their descendants are Cambodia's banteng, with mitochondrial DNA more closely resembling kouprey than banteng.

Where Dr. Hassanin sees pure kouprey, Dr. Galbreath finds his banteng-zebu hybrid.