Yak
Appearance
| Wild yak | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Faimily: | Bovidae |
| Subfaimily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bos |
| Species: | B. mutus |
| Binomial name | |
| Bos mutus Przewalski, 1883 | |
| Distribution o Wild yak | |
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]- ↑ Buzzard, P. & Berger, J. (2016). "Bos mutus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2016: e.T2892A101293528. Archived frae the original on 1 Apryle 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2016.CS1 maint: uises authors parameter (link)