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Bos Mutus Grunniens (70866487)🐃

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Domestic yak

Bos grunniens Linnaeus, 1766

القَطَاس المستأنس أو القُسطَاس أو الياك أو القَوتاش أو الخُشْقاء نوع كبير من المجترات المدجنة يتميز بجلد سميك، ويقطن في جبال الهيمالايا ويعد شعب الشيربا أول من دجنه.

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Also called
Bos grunniens
Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Bos grunniens yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
667 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
1.2 m
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Domestic yak

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
667 kg
AnAge
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Shoulder height
1.2 maverage
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: both.

By sex

  • Both1.2 mWiener, Han & Long 2003, The Yak (2nd ed), FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Ch. 6, Table 6.9, https://www.fao.org/4/AD347E/ad347e0c.htmDomestic yak. Table 6.9 'Height at withers (cm)': breed/location means for adults span 103.0 (Huanhu F: '103.0 +/- 0.3') to 137.5 cm (Sichuan Jiulong M: '137.5 +/- 8.8'); e.g., 'Tibet Alpine M 39 122.2 +/- 3.5 ... F 529 110.1 +/- 4.8'. Value is the midpoint of that span of breed means, not a population range. Wild yak (Bos mutus) bulls are far taller: 'a shoulder height for adult wild yak bulls of 175 - 203 cm' (Schaller 1998, quoted in the same FAO book, Ch. 1).
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
274 days
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Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
1
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Volume l
667 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Domestic yak yet: body length, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyBovidae
  6. ›genusBos
  7. ›speciesBos grunniens
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. familyBovidae
  4. subfamilyBovinae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderRuminantia
  13. infraorderPecora
  14. familyBovidae
  15. subfamilyBovinae
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Closest relative on this site
🐃 Wild yak — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.2 million years ago.
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رده:غژگاوها (fa), як (ru), Bos grunniens (de), Bos grunniens (it), Bos grunniens (es), yack (fr) … and 23 more languages

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