Anoa 135 



Basal 

 Circumference, 



Tip to Tip. 



7i ^, 7i 



6 6i 



6i 8| 



5l 7i 



si 5& 



84 H 



Of these the first and largest example is in the Paris Museum, while 

 the three following specimens are in the British Museum. 



Distribution. — The island of Celebes. The sapi-utan (wood-ox), as the 

 anoa, in common with other members of the ox-tribe, is called by the 

 Malays, is the most eastern representative of the Bovida ; and, as has been 

 pointed out in the Deer of all La/uh, its presence in Celebes affords one of 

 the strongest arguments, for regarding that remarkable island as torming a 

 part of the Oriental region, instead of pertaining to the Australasian region. 

 Habits. — By reason of its shy and retiring habits, very little is known in 

 regard to the anoa in a wild state. It has, however, been ascertained that 

 it inhabits elevated woodland districts, where it goes about in pairs ; being 

 in the latter respect quite unlike the larger buffaloes. It always frequents 

 localities far from the haunts of men, and is partial to the neighbourhood 

 of water. From captive individuals it has been ascertained that the period 

 of gestation is thirty weeks. The fiesh, especially that of calves, is tender 

 and well flavoured, and therefore much sought after. Its favourite pace is 

 a kind of trot, but it occasionally leaps in a clumsy sort of manner. In 

 captivity the bulls frequently display a pugnacious and spiteful disposition ; 

 and it was found necessary to put knobs on the horns of a bull kept at 

 Woburn Abbey. 



The first specimen exhibited in captivity of which there is any record 

 was in the Viceregal Menagerie at Barrackpore, near Calcutta, where it 

 was described in 1816 by General Hardwicke. 



