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UNGULATES. 
It has been ascertained by Mr. Blanford that the gayal occurs in 
a wild condition in Tenasserim 5 but in a more or less domesticated 
condition large herds of these animals are kept by the Kuki tribes on the hill- 
districts of Tipperah. It is, moreover, certain that some of the domesticated cattle 
kept by the hill-tribes on both sides of the Assam Valley in the districts of 
Manipur, Cachar, Chittagong, and the Lushai Hills, are gayal, although others are 
cow gayals nat. size). 
gaur. From indications afforded by certain skulls it is not improbable that these 
tame gayal and gaur occasionally interbreed. Mr. Blanford observes that the tame 
herds of gayal “ are kept for food, and, according to some authorities, for their milk, 
though this is doubtful, as most of the Indo-Chinese tribes who keep mithans never 
drink milk. The animals appear to be never employed in agricultural labour, nor 
as beasts of burden. They roam and feed unattended through the forest during 
the day. and return to their owner’s village at night.” 
