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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jiro" data-source="post: 30376369" data-attributes="member: 586496">මන් හිතන් හිටියේ ගවරා ප්‍රාග් ඓතිහාසික යුගයේ වදවෙච්ච් සතෙක් – කිවුවට 1500 වගේ කාලේ වෙනකම් සුළු වශයෙන් ඉන්න ඇති. බලද්දී මූ 1800 ගණන්වලත් ඉදලා තියෙනව."Though it is now extinct, Sri Lankans still refer to it in everyday speech and it is referenced in village names such as Gawarammana, Gawara-eliya, Gawara-vila, Gawara-kele and a grass species; Gawara Maana (Garnotia exaristata) which grows on highland plains.""Here are also Buffalo’s; also a sort of beast they call Gauvera, so much resembling a Bull, that I think it one of that kind. His back stands up with a sharp ridge; all his four feet white up half his legs. I never saw but one, which was kept among the Kings Creatures" (An Historical Relation of Ceylon-Robert Knox-1681)"There is also . . . A species of animal called Gawara, about the size of a half-grown Buffalo, & much the same colour, but with its horns hanging down. It is very seldom seen, because it studiously avoids man, and runs away at the very scent of him. It is said that Gawara was once caught and sent to Kandy – It died about a month afterwards." (John Doily-1812)"One of the range of plains that extend amongst the hills between Nuwara-ellia and Adam’s Peak is called Gaura-ellia; this name it is said to have obtained in consequence of a large and fierce animal, called a gaura, which was caught there about fifty years ago. This creature is probably, we may say certainly, extinct in Ceylon, as none have been seen by Europeans; but in several parts of the country, particularly in Lagalla, its former existence is vouched for by the names of places, as the ‘Gaura-field,’ the ‘Gaura-flat,’ etc" Major Forbes-‘Eleven Years in Ceylon' (1840)The next evidence is by James Emerson Tennet from his book; Ceylon: An account of the island Physical, Historical and Topographical (1859). There he has mentioned that he had met an old man residing near Hortain Plains saying that he had seen what he believed to have been a gaur, and which he described as between an elk and a buffalo in size, dark brown in colour, and very scantily provided with hair during his young."On February 8, 1914 Nuwara-Eliya recorded a temperature of -2.7 centigrade which is the lowest temperature ever to be recorded in Sri Lanka and the second lowest temperature was -2.6, which was on January 14, 1929. On March 2, 1921 the temperature was recorded as -1.7 C and on December 28, 1930 as -1.1."record una temperature eka -2.7 unata samahara areas wala -2.7 wada adu wela athi ona tharam mn hithanne.</blockquote>

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