Kouprey

Each litter has 1 young after a gestation period of 260 days, and sexual maturity is reached at 2.1 years. The kouprey is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, a threatened category, and its lifespan is given as 11.37 years, with values up to 20 years.

Weight

800 kgsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

11.4 years – 20 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Herbivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

forestsrc for Habitat

Gestation

260 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

1src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

2.07 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Active

By day (diurnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Critically Endangered (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

The kouprey is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List: it faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

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1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderArtiodactyla
5. familyBovidae
6. genusBos
7. SpeciesBos sauveli Urbain, 1937

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

EX, Extinct

Aurochs

Bos primigenius

Bovidae

VU, Vulnerable

Gaur

Bos gaurus

Bovidae

VU, Vulnerable

Wild yak

Bos mutus

Bovidae

Yak

Bos grunniens

Bovidae

CR, Critically Endangered

Banteng

Bos javanicus

Bovidae

G

Gaur

Bos frontalis

BovidaeNo free photo yet

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@misc{kouprey_2026,
  title = {Kouprey (Bos sauveli)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/kouprey},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}