Yak near Rongbuk monastery / Mt. Everest base camp
“Take out the papers and the trash
Or you don't get no spendin' cash
If you don't scrub that kitchen floor
You ain't gonna rock and roll no more
Yakety yak (Don't talk back)”
The Coasters
The wild
yak is a large wild bovid, native to the Himalayas and called scientifically Bos mutus; it is the ancestor of the
domestic yak, which is called Bos
grunniens. Yakety yak, yakety yak – just that we don’t get too serious. I
don’t think that we saw Bos mutus but
only Bos grunniens as Bos mutus is a species with an estimation
of only 10,000 animals left in 2008 (look for details in the Wikipedia
article). Too bad, I’d say, as this gene pool could be important in the future.
For the gold haired subspecies, known as the Wild Golden Yak (金丝野牦牛), the
situation is even worse as with an estimated population of 170 left in the wild,
it is considered an endangered species.
The wild
yak roams in the treeless uplands between 3,000 and 5,500 m (9,800 and 18,000
ft), where it lives on grasses and sedges, herbs, shrubs, mosses, and even
lichen (artic ruminants like the reindeer live on lichens during winter!).
Crossing the wild waters
A fight in the grasslands
More likely to a dzo - interbred between yak and cattle
Dzo or yak - bulls, no doubt about that
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