I need these guys in my COTW Life ...

[scenic forge]

I know it's too late for the Nepal map .... And I wouldn't even expect a backfill since we already have water B's and Yak's ....

But if we ever get another South Asia Map I would really enjoy having these guys in my COTW life ....

I need these guys in my COTW Life ...

[scenic forge]

Big Bad and mean AF ...

[vital pawn]

The only semi-realistic way we could get these is if we got a Cambodian Reserve

I did read an article from 2022 about talks regarding the reopening of hunting there and while I don’t think it wound up happening

A Cambodian Reserves story could revolve around hunting reopening in the country for the first time in decades

And if this did happen I could see the Gaur being the headliner species

Of course I did say “Semi-realistic”

[scenic forge]

@vital pawn Of course I did say “Semi-realistic”

Isn't that the very definition of HCOTW 😉

[vagrant tendon]

This on a map with peacocks and asiatic bears and I'm already happy with that map lol

[pliant solar]

totally agree with you, its truly something else seeing these guys in person, absolutely massive creatures. Its a shame that they aren't very well known

[scenic forge]

Maybe a small map /reserve somewhere in South Asia ... Where peafowl, Gaur, Asiatic Bears and a few more class 1-2 species can be found ...

No more than 6 or 7 species .... I wouldn't even mind a tiger or two 😉

[pliant solar]

by asiatic bears do you mean sloth bears? melursus ursinus or asiatic black bears? Ursus thibetanus

[scenic forge]

I think the Asiatic bears are more numerous and common of the two ... but the sloth bears would also be great to see ... truthfully I would be happier with either one ....

If they were to add sloth bears they would need to up the aggression ... but I'm here mainly for the Gaur ....

[vagrant tendon]

Why small map again? If they have the resources, all the maps might as well be big, even if they are waterfowl focused like Revontuli

[scenic forge]

just to limit the number of species .... I think the small maps work better with 7-9 species .... Medved is a large map and the species list is too small IMO ....

I realize not everyone likes the small maps ... I'm good either way ....

[vagrant tendon]

Well, they stopped making big maps with less animals since Revontuli, and I don't think we'll ever have another big map with less than 10-12 species again, and what about the old maps, they can go back and backfill once in a while and eventually they'll come up to the new standards

[scenic forge]

If someone wants to do a southeast asia map ... have at it .... This is not really a map Idea ... I just want to hunt Gaur .....

[vagrant tendon]

Im actually thinking of making one for a good South Asian tropical map

[jaunty glacier]

Laos could work too: https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1324878522644435014

[scenic forge]

Swap Gaur out for banteng?

[jaunty glacier]

Both Gaur and Banteng are on my map idea, gaur just don’t have a range map yet

[jaunty sierra]

In theory we could have them on a Texas map

[pseudo saffron]

It’s never too late

[vital pawn]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the gaur on many Texan game ranches were actually their domesticated counterparts the Gayal

I don’t doubt that animal in the picture is a Gaur and I have no doubt a couple ranches in Texas have wild gaur running around but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were game ranches offering Gayal as Gaur

Here is an image of some Gayal for reference

[jaunty glacier]

All of the “Gaur” on hunting ranches are Gayal, as for some reason under Texas law it is illegal to hunt or kill a Gaur. No clue why but I personally wouldn’t mind Gayal if they add a Texan game ranch.

[jaunty glacier]

Plus, seeing as they can look like this, I personally think they’re more impressive than Gaur.

[vital pawn]

I did read that about Gaur being illegal to hunt in Texas

[pseudo saffron]

Could Gaur be on a Mongolian map?

[vital pawn]

No, the only bovine that would work on a Mongolian map are Feral Yaks, Gaur are exclusive to India and Southeastern Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia)

[jaunty sierra]

Apparently this one was hunted in South Africa

I very much doubt they would add Gaur to a South African map though

[vital pawn]

Especially when South Africa has a lot of dangerous game species that are native like the Cape Buffalo and Southern White Rhinoceros

[jaunty sierra]

Yeah there’s no way they could add exotics like Gaur, Himalayan Tahr, ibex, or even fallow deer to an African map without the community going nuts

[vital pawn]

Funny enough though Gaur are not the only Asiatic Dangerous Game Species that were hunted in South Africa, apparently back in the early 2010s there was a game ranch in South Africa that was offering Tigers, though the legality of that is questionable to me

[jaunty sierra]

Can you imagine going to Africa and instead of lions you see a tiger

I actually talked to a guy who had tigers on his ranch one time. He told me that a white tiger killed another tiger because of a territorial dispute

[vital pawn]

Given that there is a park in South Africa with free roaming South China Tigers, I suspect the handful of tigers that were hunted on South African Game Ranches were either South China or Bengal

[jaunty sierra]

I would imagine bengal because a good amount of Indian is similar to South Africa

[jaunty glacier]

Feral Yaks would be cool, assuming they made them something different than Wild Yaks, seeing as domestic yaks are far smaller irl

[vital pawn]

And more colour variation

[jaunty glacier]

Definitely, have white and some piebalds there as commons/uncommons

[pseudo saffron]

Ah ok

[quasi moss]

Ew pls just refill these to Sundar 🙏

[pseudo saffron]

Better yet, fix the ranges on Sundarpatan and switch them out with water buffaloes

[quasi moss]

Yes, you could just halve the range of water buffalo so you have water buffalo on one side of the river and gaur on the other

[pseudo saffron]

Yeah that’s true

[pseudo saffron]

Could these be added to Emerald Coast then? I feel like they’d fit in

[vital pawn]

No, the Banteng sort of fills the niche of Asiatic Forest Ox on Emerald Coast

Gotta hope for a surprise Sundarpatan update or an Indochinese (Cambodia/Laos) reserve

[pseudo saffron]

I’d hope they wouldn’t only have banteng on the coasts

[scenic forge]

I suppose they could decrease the number and range of Water B's and add Gaur in that way ..... It's a long shot but I wouldn't hate it ....

[quasi moss]

👆

[vital pawn]

The only other bovines that would fit Emerald are Water Buffalo and Scrub Bulls

Which I would be happy with

[vital pawn]

The Gaur could also share drink zones with Nilgai and Barasingha if you get what I mean

[quasi moss]

Yeah

[pine zinc]

i think that was a project to save the south tiger population from going extinct

[pliant solar]

sloth bears are actually more numerous on the subcontinent, Asiatic black bears are mainly found in the himalayan foothills and the north east

[pliant solar]

nope, they dont range that far north they are only found in south and southeast asia