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Yak
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
bovine mammal, Bos grunniens, of the Tibet region of China and adjacent areas.
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YakFrom LoveToKnow 1911 YAK, the wild (and domesticated) ox of the Tibetan plateau; a species nearly allied to the bison group.
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Yak
Taxonomy Bos grunniens [Linnaeus, 1766]. Citation: Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:99. Type locality: Boreal Asia (domesticated stock). The taxonomic record (above) is taken from Wilson and Reeder (1993).
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Yak Is a bovine oxlike animal of Tibet and also other parts of Central Asia. The yak is built with short thick legs, high shoulders, and large curved horns. Having long hair on the flanks, legs, and tail where it reaches the ground.
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Yak - BOS GRUNNIENS
Endangered
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria)
Order: Even-toed Mammals (Artiodactyla)
Family: Bovidae.
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The yak is designed with large lungs, a high red-blood cell count, and a high concentration of blood sugar. These features enable the yak able to survive in higher elevations.
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Throughout history, the domesticated yak of central Asia has provided Tibetan herders with wool, leather, meat, milk and cheese. Yaks are used by humans as beasts of burden. Their dung is used as fuel and fertilizer.
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The yak weighs up to 2200 lb pounds and its habitat is the treeless uplands, including plains, hills, and mountains of the Tibetan plateau and adjacent highlands, including Gansu Province, China.
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*** The yak was probably domesticated in Tibet during the first millennium B.C., and domesticated animals now occur throughout the high plateaus and mountains of Central Asia, in association with people.
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Yak
the Yak is a gigantic cow with a withers-height until 2 m and a weight up to one ton. The cows reach only the half of the weight of the bulls. The Yak...
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The yak (Bos grunniens) is a long-haired humped domestic bovine found in Tibet and throughout the Himalayan region of south central Asia, as well as in Mongolia.
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or yak yak yak. Magpies inhabit open woodlands, savannas or brush-covered country near streams. The nest is built with twigs and is large, bulky and domelike. It usually has two entrances.
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Food is obtained on the ground and includes a wide range of insect prey often obtained by probing wild Yak dung and turning it over to flush them out. It peers into rock crevices and into holes in the ground also in its search for food.
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Diet: goats, wild sheep, young yak, deer, hares, rodents, game birds and will sometimes go after livestock if food becomes scarce. Habits: Snow Leopards are primarily active at night, dawn or dusk.
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Interesting Facts Domesticated primarily in the Tibetan region/used for clothes (hair), tents (hide), fuel (dung), meat, and as a pack animal. Can carry up to 300 lbs. The rare wild yak is much larger than the domestic yak.
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Banteng (B. javanicus) Â- Gaur (B. gaurus) Â- Yak (B. mutus) Â- Cattle (B. taurus) Â- Kouprey (B. sauveli) Pseudonovibos Kting Voar (P. spiralis) ...
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others of the family Bovidae, they have paired, hollow, unbranched horns that do not shed. Other Bovidae that are so closely related to true cattle that they can still interbreed include the anoa, bison, gaur, Indian and African buffalo, and yak.
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 See also: Cattle, Deer, Sheep, Bison, Buffalo
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