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In wild yak societies, mothers with young venture on steeper terrain and slightly higher elevation than either males or females without young a new study shows. The study reported that wild yak ...

During a 2015 excursion to Nepal, University of Oxford wildlife researcher Geraldine Werhahn snapped this iconic shot of a wild yak. The animal hadn't been spotted in Nepal for over 50 years. (Credit: ...

Kusi leads wild yak research for the program in Nepal, where the animal was once thought extinct. His team rediscovered the wild yak there in 2014.

Himalayan Wild Yak is one of the most talked about new restaurants in Ashburn’s Brambleton Town Center. Named for the bovine indigenous to the Himalayan mountains of Tibet, Mongolia and ...

"Wild yaks are icons for the remote, untamed, high-elevation roof of the world," researcher Joel Berger, who led the yak-counting expedition, said in a statement.

Earth’s closest equivalent to the bantha is the domesticated yak, which is the descendent of the wild yak of the Himalaya region on Central Asia and north into Mongolia and Russia. The yak also ...

But mention wild yak to a friend and they might glaze over. Others might recall Yakety Yak, the 1958 song of the rock group the Coasters.

"Wild yaks are icons for the remote, untamed, high-elevation roof of the world," researcher Joel Berger, who led the yak-counting expedition, said in a statement.