🐃Domestic yak
The 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.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Bos grunniens yet.
- 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
Everything we know about the Domestic yak
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass667 kgAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
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Shoulder height1.2 maverageOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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 lifespan26 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation274 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l667 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusBos
- ›speciesBos grunniens
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- familyBovidae
- subfamilyBovinae
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderRuminantia
- infraorderPecora
- familyBovidae
- subfamilyBovinae
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