KANJI KIDS གཞུང་རྩེས།

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༈ རིའི་སེམས་ཅན་འབྲོང་གི་སྐོར།། • ------------------------------------- • སྤྱིར་བཏང་མིང་། ཝཡེལཌ་ གཡག • ཚན་རིག་གི་མིང་། བོས་ག་རན་ནིནས། • ས་གནས་སི་མིང་། འབྲོང་། • Wild Yak • Common Name: Yak • Scientific Name: Bos grunniens • Local Name: Dong • • Description: The Wild Yak is the largest wild animal of the Himalaya. It is a massive, powerful, short-legged, blackish-brown animal with a drooping head and high humped shoulders. Up-curved, widely separated pointed horns are present in both sexes. Horns of females are about half the size that of males. The hairs hang down nearly to the ground from the shoulders and chest. The tail has a very large brush of black hair over a foot in thickness. Yaks have been domesticated across most of their range. Unlike the Wild Yak, the tamed Yak usually bears patches of white. Due to hybridization with domestic cows, Dzos, are smaller than the wild ones. • Habitat and Behavior: The Yak live in groups, living mostly in sexually separated herds. Very little is known about this animal in India. It is one of the highest dwelling animals in the world. It is found in the coldest, most desolate and rugged snow covered terrains of the Indian Himalaya. Due to scarce vegetation in its habitat the animals roam permanently to obtain food. They graze in the morning and evening. They have also been seen to consume snow when water is not available. During early summer they can be seen in lower areas feeding on fresh vegetation. They can endure temperatures below -40 °C and are sensitive to warm temperatures. To escape the summer heat they move up to the snowline and descend with the onset of winter. The animal is very shy and wary and is difficult to approach. • Status and Distribution: Yak is distributed in Trans-Himalayan ranges with limits in the plateau of Tibet and part of Kansu province in China. In Ladakh it has been reported from Changchenmo valley at an altitude between 4320-6000 m. The estimated population in Ladakh is around 40 to 50 animals. The estimated population throughout its range is 15000 animals. • The Yak is listed as Vulnerable under IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals, under Appendix I in CITES and Schedule II in the Jammu Kashmir Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1978. • Size : Body Length 300-380 cm, Shoulder Height 200 cm, Tail Length 60-90 cm. • #mammalsofladakh #wildanimals #yak #Ladakh #mountains

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