A very rare grey ox found in the forests of SE Asia.
高棉野牛，柬埔寨野牛
Bos sauveli, family Bovidae
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Six were found in the 1990s in remote forests in Vietnam - a rhino, a rabbit, three deer and a primate - but they were the first since the discovery of the kouprey in the area in 1937.
Nevertheless, the kouprey is shy and more difficult to kill than either gaur or banteng.
There are five or six explanations for our data, but the explanation that fits the data best is that the kouprey is a domestic ox that went wild.
The animal was expected to be similar to other wild cattle found in the same area, including the gaur and the kouprey, or gray ox.
Weighing in at about 220 pounds, the saola is the largest land-dwelling mammal introduced to science since the kouprey, or gray ox, was described in 1937.