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Yak | |
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Yak at Letdar on the Annapurna Circuit in the Annapurna muntain range o central Nepal. | |
Scienteefic clessification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Faimily: | Bovidae |
Genus: | Bos |
Species: | B. grunniens |
Binomial name | |
Bos grunniens Linnaeus, 1766 | |
Synonyms | |
Poephagus grunniens |
The yak (Bos grunniens an Bos mutus) is a lang-haired bovid foond throughoot the Himalayan region o sooth Central Asie, the Tibetan Plateau an as far north as Mongolie an Roushie. Maist yaks are domesticatit yaks, Bos grunniens. Thare is an aa a smaa, vulnerable population o wild yaks, Bos mutus. In the 1990s, a concertit effort wis unnertaken tae help save the wild yak population.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Harris, R.B.; Leslie, D. (2008). "Bos mutus". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2008. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 29 March 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.