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Yak Past

Domestic yak is descended from the wild yak. Fossils for both have been found that date to the Pleistocene period. 
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  • Developed over past 10,000 years on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau ("roof of the world").
  • Qiang - possibly the earliest animal husbandry culture of excellence in the world.
  • Qiang's outstanding achievement was taming wild beasts for domestic purposes.
  • Sheep/goats being tamed led to taming yak, horse, and other herbivores, then to developing societies based on animal husbandry.​
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  • Domestication of yak led to progress, prosperity and economic advancement for people.
  • High value as beast of burden (packing), milk, hair, hides, meat, and dung (fuel in elevations above the tree line).
  • Eventually spread northward and southward then to other parts of the world (in small numbers).
  • Present-day distribution developed from these migrations.

Source: Wiener, Gerald, et al. The Yak. Second ed., FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, 2006.
COVER PHOTO: JENINA WILLIAMS, EDITS BY CHELSEA SAUNDERS

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