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"Yak" redirects here. For the related species Bos mutus, see Wild yak. For other uses, see Yak (disambiguation).
| Yak | |
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| A yak in the Nepalese Himalayas. | |
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| Species: | B. grunniens
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| Bos grunniens Linnaeus, 1766 | |
The domestic yak (Bos grunniens) is a long-haired domesticated bovid found throughout the Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia. It is descended from the wild yak (Bos mutus).[1]
References
- ↑ Grubb, Peter (16 November 2005). "Order Artiodactyla (pp. 637-722)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 691. . . http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200680.
