Show gaur bulls water buffaloes belong to the cattle family they were given their heir name because they like to lie in in the water of marshes pools and streams during hot hours of the day many water buffaloes run wild in india others have been tamed and are used in plowing and for other purposes on farms water buffaloes are seldom more than five feet high at the shoulders they are not such big animals as other cattle the gaur which also are found wild in india bulls are among the giants of the cattle world often they have h a height of six feet at the shoulders dersi the horns ot of a gaur bull are large and strong they are six or seven inches thick at the base and a pair of them may spread out three feet efforts to tame the gaur have met little success the big animals like their freedom and it is dangerous for men to try to keep them as they would common cattle |