Gayal

I am wrong, tell me why the animal with peculiar frontal development, and called the gayal locally, should not have been named _frontalis_, whilst the animal called mithun, with nothing peculiar in his frontal development, is so called? ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

Next to the gayal is the _Gam_ -- also a forest-dwelling ox, of large size; and, like the other, browsing upon the leaves and twigs of trees. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Although it is believed that the mithan and gayal are the same animal, one of this report's reviewers points out that the mithan of Bhutan are strikingly different in color, body shape, and horn structure from gayals seen in zoos in Europe and India. ❋ Unknown (1983)

The genetic relationship of mithan to gayal, gaur, and cattle needs to be clarified. ❋ Unknown (1983)

In Asia it should include the great Indian rhinoceros and its allied species, the burrhel, the Nilgiri tahr and the gayal. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

The local name for the Central Indian ox is over a large tract of country the gayal, or gyll; and this, being the animal with the peculiar frontal development, was most probably named bos, or _Gavaeus frontalis_, whilst the mithun, or Eastern Bengal animal, was the gaur. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

The usual manner employed to catch the full-grown gayal is to surround a field of corn with a strong fence. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

The _gayal_ is of a much milder disposition than the _gaur_, and is extensively domesticated, and on the frontiers of Assam is considered a valuable property by the people. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

"P.S. -- Do any of the Eastern Bengal races call this mithun gayal?" ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

Young gayals are caught by leaving in the fence holes of a size sufficient to admit a calf, but which excludes the full-grown gayal; the calves enter by these holes, which are then shut by natives who are watching, and who secure the calves. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

With them a deer is a deer, and a large ox-like animal a buffalo, or it may be a gayal, or a jungle cow, or a gour, or a gyall; but which of all these is an ox, or whether the four last-mentioned bovine quadrupeds are one and the same species, remains to be determined. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

He would have thought light of any ordinary peril -- a combat with a tiger, or a gayal, or a bear; but, like all his race, he was given to superstition, he now firmly believed that some of his Hindoo gods dwelt in this valley, and that they were all to be punished for intruding into the sacred abode. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Besides these three species and the zebu, the yak, the gayal, and the arni [190] (not to mention the buffalo or genus Bubalus) have been domesticated; making altogether seven species of Bos. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

a running noose, which secures the gayal by the neck as he enters to eat the corn; of ten so caught perhaps three are hanged by the noose running too tight, and by the violence of their struggling. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

"In referring to Mr. Sterndale's descriptions of the gaur and gayal, in your issues of the 28th March and 11th April, I trust that that gentleman will not be offended by my making a few remarks on the subject, and that he will set me right if I am in the wrong. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

"The bull more especially has an indication of a hump, which, however, must be specially looked for to be noticed, and he has a broad and massive neck like the gaur, but no raised spinal ridge, nor has either of these species a deep dewlap like the gayal" ( 'Cat. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

Professor Garrod, in his _Ungulata_ in Cassell's Natural History, quotes the following account from Mr. Macrae concerning the way in which the Kookies of the Chittagong hill regions catch the wild gayal: "On discovering a herd of wild gayals in the jungle they prepare a number of balls, the size of a man's head, composed of a particular kind of earth, salt and cotton. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

The gayal usually goes in herds of from twenty to forty, and frequents dry valleys and the sides of hills covered with forest. " ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

Person: Name three things you hate. Gayal: [VAT], [income tax] and the [poll tax]. ❋ Save The Gayals (2009)

[Physicality], [mentality] and Gayality ❋ Serious Bitch (2018)

I think [Sebastian] is gay, there’s only one way to find out... I [challenge] [you all] to a Battle Gayale! ❋ MobyRick917 (2018)