A male Indian gaur (Wild Oxen) died in Bhopal's Van Vihar National Park on Tuesday, on Wednesday cremated in the presence of doctors and officers of the Van Vihar. Only one Indian gaur is left in the Van Vihar. Two of his brothers have died earlier.
The gaur died on Tuesday. It was cremated on Wednesday. It was born on November 27,2014. According to the Van Vihar management, a male gaur was brought to Van Vihar from Khargone on March 3,2011 and a female gaur was brought to Van Vihar from Kanha National Park on March 17, 2011. In the past years, this female gaur gave birth to three male gaur cubs at different places.
They were kept in an enclosure located on the main road of Van Vihar. A male gaur cub died on February 11, 2018 in a fight. Currently, there were only two male gaur in the enclosure. One of the male gaur died on Tuesday. The postmortem of the body was done on Wednesday by Dr. Atul Gupta, Wildlife Health Officer. Dr. Rajat Kulkarni, Wildlife SOS Van Vihar and Dr. Prashant Deshmukh of Wildlife Conservation Trust did it.
Prima facie, the cause of death appears to be asphyxia.