Cattle are a kind of large livestock that everyone is familiar with, but there are many types of cattle in the world, counting the types of artificial breeding, the classification of cattle can reach 5 genera and 16 species, and if you look at the breed, there can be as many as hundreds of species, most people have seen the breeds of cattle are very limited, in our country, the northern region is mostly cattle, and the south is more than buffalo.
Yunnan is a very rich place in biological species in China, there are often novel and rare biological species to attract people's attention, this is not, recently in Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, Nuozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve Management and Protection Bureau staff saw a rare bison - white-limbed bison, at least three appeared in the video data, including a cow, followed by a calf.
White-limbed bison when the juvenile body hair is mostly yellow, after adulthood body hair is mostly black, part of the dark brown, but the lower part of the limbs is white, as if wearing 4 white stockings, so it is also called white-limbed bison, white socks cattle, etc., this kind of cattle to India, so it is often called Indian bison, but in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan and Myanmar and other places can often see its figure, China's Tibet, Yunnan parts are also its habitat, so China also has white-limbed bison, However, the number of wild populations is estimated to not exceed 200.
Friends who often watch animal documentaries know that the bison in Africa and North America are very large, and some can even weigh up to a ton, but in fact, the world's largest wild cattle are white-limbed bison, which grow into adult lengths between 2.5 and 3.3 meters, shoulder heights of 1.9 meters to 2.2 meters, bulls generally weigh more than 1000 kilograms, cows weigh up to 750 kilograms, and there are data showing that the largest male white-limbed bison weighs up to 1500 kilograms (1.5 tons), and its physique is strong, fierce, and is called " The bull demon king of the bison", if in captivity, some people estimate that the maximum weight of this cow may exceed 2000 kg.
White-limbed bison mainly live in tropical and subtropical areas, but they like to live in the inaccessible mountain forests, some white-limbed bison living area and tigers (including Bengal tigers, Malaya tigers and Indochinese tigers) overlap, so the two sides have also been staged hunting and anti-hunting games, but white-limbed bison are wild, adult white-limbed bison do not fear tigers and black bears, its body size is usually 3 to 5 times that of tigers or black bears, and the huge and strong body also gives it enough confidence, so when seeing tigers or black bears, It even dares to take the initiative to fight, and at this time, tigers and black bears usually flee into the wilderness, and will not fight with white-limbed bison.
Is the white-limbed bison such a cow? Even a tiger can't beat it? In fact, this is not the case, the huge Bengal tiger is still sure to deal with the white bison, malayan tiger and Indochinese tiger will not be flattened by it, in fact, the reason why the tiger does not confront the white-limbed bison head-on, in addition to the huge size of this bison is very strong, mainly because the tiger is good at sneak attack, when the prey is not defensive, the most common means is to lock the throat, which is the safest, simplest, easiest way to hunt, and if you confront the white-limbed bison head-on, If it is injured, the predator will have a greatly reduced hunting ability, so it will be difficult to survive, so the tiger usually does not face the bison, and will often turn its head and run away when chased by the bison.
Most parts of China's Yunnan Province vegetation is good, dense mountain forests, very suitable for the survival of white-limbed bison, on March 16 this year, there are white-limbed bison in a pine forest in Mengman Town, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, and now this animal has appeared in the Yunnan Pu'er City Nuozhadu Provincial Nature Reserve, or that this animal has a tendency to cross-border and cross-regional migration, this kind of cattle meat quality is excellent, if it can be cultivated and developed, it has the potential to become a good breed of beef cattle.
Resources:
"Global Network" August 9 article "Domestic first! Infrared camera shoots Indian bison cub video in Pu'er, Yunnan