🐃Domestic yak

Bos grunniens Linnaeus, 1766

ヤク（犛牛、英: yak、家畜化された種としての学名は Bos grunniens）は、偶蹄目ウシ科ウシ属に分類される偶蹄類（ウシ族）であり、野生種（Bos mutus）はノヤクと呼ばれる。ノヤクは現生のウシ科でも最大級の種類の一角であり、現生において高地に中心的に生息する動物でも最大である。また、文化的にも重要な象徴と見なされている。

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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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Everything we know about the Domestic yak

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Body mass

667 kg

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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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Gestation

274 days

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