The wild yak (Bos mutus) is a large, wild bovine native to the Himalayas. It is the ancestor of the domestic yak (Bos grunniens).
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The wildyak (Bos mutus) is a large, wild bovine native to the Himalayas. It is the ancestor of the domestic yak (Bos grunniens). The ancestor of the wild...
north as Mongolia and Siberia. It is descended from the wildyak (Bos mutus). The English word yak originates from the Tibetan: གཡག་, Wylie: g.yag. In Tibetan...
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and...
"Red Bull". Anoa Aurochs Banteng Bison Kouprey Noah (gaur) Water buffalo Wildyak Zebu Drawings by Douglas Hamilton Largest organisms Suraprasit, K.; Jaegar...
Jianlin, M. Melletti, J. Burton, 2014, Wildyak (Bos mutus Przewalski, 1883), Ecology, Evolution and Behavior of Wild Cattle: Implications for Conservation...
genus Bos, which includes, among others, cattle, yaks and gaur, being most closely related to yaks. Bison are sometimes bred with domestic cattle and...
The wild goat (Capra aegagrus) is a wild goat species, inhabiting forests, shrublands and rocky areas ranging from Turkey and the Caucasus in the west...
The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), also called Asian buffalo, Asiatic buffalo and wild buffalo, is a large bovine native to the Indian subcontinent...
The wild Bactrian camel (Camelus ferus) is a critically endangered species of camel living in parts of northwestern China and southwestern Mongolia. It...
the wild bezoar ibex of the Zagros Mountains is the likely original ancestor of all or most domestic goats today. Neolithic farmers began to herd wild goats...
captive-breeding program and reintroduction to the wild. The scimitar oryx, which was listed as extinct in the wild, also relied on a captive-breeding program...
(a word also used to describe wild boar), sajino, or pecarí. The word javelina derives from the Spanish word for "wild boar". In French Guiana and Suriname...
Hippos generally breed well in captivity; birth rates are lower than in the wild, but this can be attributed to zoos' desire to limit births, since hippos...
more specific with time. Old English dēor and Middle English der meant a wild animal of any kind. Cognates of Old English dēor in other dead Germanic languages...
in the United Kingdom and in some areas of Japan. In the United Kingdom, wild muntjac descended from escapees from the Woburn Abbey estate around 1925...
fleeing) when they are threatened by predators such as cheetahs, lions, African wild dogs, crocodiles, hyenas, and leopards. Gazelle is derived from French gazelle...
sheep are members of the genus, and are thought to be descended from the wild mouflon of central and southwest Asia. Female sheep are called ewes, males...
crossbreed. Both species are believed to have been domesticated from their wild relatives, the vicuña and guanaco. There are two breeds of alpaca: the Suri...
shapes of their horns. Those of bulls are widely-set, similar to those of wildyaks, growing outwards before arching forwards and upwards, eventually fraying...
fragmentation of the landscape. As few as 100 Nilgiri tahrs were left in the wild by the end of 20th century. Since that time, their numbers have increased...
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