Boars Hill, a small private collection on boars hill, Oxford, With Gaur!

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I often drice by this place, all animals visible from the road. i saw what i ussually see there, Llama and Rhea in a paddock, Sika Deer in the other, and finally muntjac

then, behind the deer paddocks i saw 3 Gaur! im sure that they were them, anyone elso shocked!
 
Either species would be very interesting! what is the name of this collection? have they a website? are there photos in the gallery?
 
Paradoxurus said:
Christopher Marler still has Gayal doesn't he? He's not a million miles away from here.
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Thats who i was thinking of but wasn`t sure if i had the right part of the country but it seems i am right in which case it looks like he still has some of the Gayal left.
 
Cat-Man said:
I often drice by this place, all animals visible from the road.
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You're a bit young to drive aren't you?;)

I reckon you may have seen Gayal- very similar and in private hands in Uk as mentioned above. I think the only Gaur are Whipsnade's.

Marler is/was in Buckingghamshire but these could easily have come from him. He donated a pair of American Bison to Whipsnade a few years back when they started keeping them again.
 
i didnt have time to post this earlier, was at school

my dad drove,

possibly gayal, but was shocked to see a gaur like animal, to big to be a water buffalo
 
I highly doubt it. It would've been called Boar's Hill for a few centuries at least, probably cause it was a common place for the higher classes to hunt wild boar in medieval times.
 
Marwell Dalek said:
I highly doubt it. It would've been called Boar's Hill for a few centuries at least, probably cause it was a common place for the higher classes to hunt wild boar in medieval times.
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Why do you highly doubt it,when the population of Wild Boar living wild on the U.K is on the increase and in some areas expanding its range,as far as i know the Cotswolds does have a small population of Wild Boar.
 
A place that would've been called Boar's Hill for centuries means there's automatically wild boar populations living there? I live near a place called Otterbourne and it's nul of the creatures.
 
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