Noah was delivered at Trans Ova Genetics, Genetic Advancement Center in Iowa. The birth of the cloned animal was a tense period when veterinarians and technicians, under the direction of Jonathan Hill from Cornell University, intensively monitored and administered a variety of treatments. His mother, Bessie, the domestic cow, remains healthy. Gaur is a large wild ox species, which is generally brown or black with a humplike ridge on its back and with white or yellow stockings on all four legs. Adult males have shoulder heights of 1.5-2 meter and weigh up to 2,200 pounds.
Females are about one-third smaller than males.