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.

Wild yak
Temporal range: 5–0 Ma
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S
D
C
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Pg
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Early Pliocene – Recent
Conservation status

Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
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

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