Yak
| Yak | |
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| Yak at Letdar on the Annapurna Circuit in the Annapurna muntain range o central Nepal. | |
| Scienteefic clessification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Genus: | Bos |
| Species: | B. grunniens |
| Binomial name | |
| Bos grunniens Linnaeus, 1766 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Poephagus grunniens |
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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 Mairch 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.
