Yaks

species of mammal

The yak (Bos grunniens), also known as the Tartary ox, grunting ox, hairy cattle, sarlak or sarlyk, or domestic yak, is a species of long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region, the Tibetan Plateau, Tajikistan, the Pamir Mountains, and as far north as Mongolia and Siberia. It is descended from the wild yak (Bos mutus).

A dzo () is a hybrid between the yak and the domestic cow. The word dzo technically refers to a male hybrid, while a female is known as a or . In Mongolian, it is called a ' (хайнаг). There is also the English portmanteau term of yattle'—a combination of the words yak and cattle, as well as yakow—a combination of the words yak and cow.

butter made from the milk of the domesticated yak

traditional sport in Central Asia

The yakalo is a cross of the yak (Bos grunniens) and the American bison (Bison bison, known as a buffalo in North America). It was produced by hybridisation experiments in the 1920s, when crosses were made between yak bulls and both pure bison cows and bison–cattle hybrid cows. As with many other inter-specific crosses, only female hybrids were found to be fertile (Haldane's rule). Few of the hybrids survived, and the experiments were discontinued in 1928.

Mongolian sport

Canadian animated television series