| Their yaks share these high, sunny pastures with blue sheep and plump marmots. |
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| Butchers from Tibet come especially to slaughter yaks whose meat is then dried and smoked. |
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| Just beyond the southern boundary of the reserve lies Russia's republic of Tuva, a sere land of yaks and camels tended by seminomadic herders. |
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| Here the goods are either loaded on the backs of yaks or on mule caravans to send into Tibet or to Nepal and Bhutan to be forwarded to Tibet. |
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| Shaggy yaks stomp around threshing circles, ears of barley are thrashed with sticks and winnowed by singing villagers in twos and threes. |
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| Now black yaks and white sheep graze peacefully on dry grassland, tended by Tibetan herdsmen clad in bright orange. |
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| Cattle seem to recognise this, so in a mob of mixed breeds, the yaks generally set the pattern. |
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| This is a sweet fella, wouldn't hurt a soul, but he yaks, and yaks, and yaks. |
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| Milk products were common in the form of sour cream and butter from cows and yaks. |
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| It was only after the Mongols tamed horses, yaks and camels that they took to a nomadic herding lifestyle. |
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| Because they bulk up faster and on less feed than cattle, yaks are raised without growth hormones or steroids. |
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| There are exotic animals from throughout the world, such as aoudads and yaks. |
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| In the valleys there are orchards, and up on the high pastures, where not even barley will grow, people husband yaks, cows or sheep. |
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| Shaggy yaks tread the icy pastures, their huge bodies belying their importance in mountain life. |
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| Located at the base of the snowcapped Ala-Too Mountains, the rich farm valley provides plenty of food for sheep, mountain goats and yaks. |
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| The evacuation began with moving out the yaks, continued with tranquilizing the eight large cats and finished with caging the birds. |
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| Horses, and at high altitudes, yaks, are used instead of porters to carry loads. |
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| Then we freewheeled down countless switchbacks to Sangdu, nestled in the corner of a wide earthy valley dotted with ponies, pigs and yaks. |
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| The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. |
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| With the circumambience of vast grassland, the heavenly lake is also a fairyland for yaks, sheep, horses, and other wild animals wandering around. |
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| Without much grass, yaks sometimes eat dirt, which can tie their intestines in knots. |
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| If you were in a lamasery and one of your duties was to look after a herd of yaks, would you answer a yak who asked you what you were? |
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| When they compared the DNA of Tibetan yaks with that of American bison, they found the two species are closely related. |
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| Mitochondrial DNA suggests that goats, sheep, pigs, yaks and buffalo were each domesticated at least twice. |
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| When yaks sweat, they secrete something sticky that keeps their hair matted down, giving them more insulation. |
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| As domesticated animals, yaks are useful in transporting goods and as food, with milk and meat at the top of the list. |
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| In the rural areas, many children stay at home to help their parents tend their herds of goats, yaks, camels and horses. |
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| Up to 145,000 people, semi-nomadic herders with no means of subsistence other than their yaks and sheep lost most of their livestock. |
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| There was a shearing sensation that reminded me of yaks being shorn of their wool. |
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| The team will include a cook, a kitchen boy and yaks, omnipresent animals. Yaks are indispensable in Nepal and Tibet's high altitude valleys. |
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| By the lake men were milling, trying to harness yaks which stood in the water and could not be persuaded to come out. |
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| Dorjee is very busy checking the hundreds of kg of materials brought up by the yaks. |
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| Some groups keep mixed herds of sheep, goats, cattle and camels while others rely more on single species, such as yaks or reindeer. |
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| However, few families own more than a small number of cows, water buffalo, or yaks because the mountainous topography does not provide grazing land for large animals. |
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| In an entirely different style, Ma Yuan's The Top of the World Mountains is a stunning realist landscape of Tibet with a herd of yaks crossing a desert plateau. |
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| Outside the city, loggers have denuded the mountain slopes of their thick forests, and millions of sheep, goats, and yaks have left lush pastures rutted and barren. |
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| During warmer periods the land turned into meadows and steppes, ideal grazing grounds for woolly mammoths, rhinoceroses, bison, horses, elk, and yaks. |
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| Donkeys, mules, oxen, and water buffalo carry loads, as do the offspring of the temperamental yaks, which are kept only to crossbreed with cattle. |
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| In Bhutan, cows and yaks graze, rice and wheat grow, and people live up and down terraced land that seems to kiss endless blue sky above and melt into pristine waters below. |
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| In the Asia Field, you will feel your eyes are not big enough to take in the camels, yaks, fallow deer, sika deer, blue sheep and springbok capering in all directions. |
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| A woman in angular swaths of black was milking one of the yaks. |
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| People moved about with the seasons, taking their herds of horses, yaks, sheep and goats with them and always returning to home base in the summer. |
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| But yaks are not found in Turkey, only in Afghanistan and Pakistan and so these fine people were rendered yakless in their new home. |
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| Fleeing Tibetans tried to save the texts, the repositories of 1,500 years of thought and prayer, by trussing them on yaks, but the loads often fell into rivers and ravines. |
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| Bhutan has, in fact, been a pioneer in promoting accessibility to primary health care with health workers trekking over mountain passes to reach remote communities taking vaccines loaded on the back of yaks. |
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| Sherpas and Tibetan workers used yaks to carry the waste. |
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| He raises livestock, including Tibetan yaks. |
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| Multi-coloured prayer flags flutter on strings, bleached by the sun into pastel shades. Further north of the monastery is a vast lake that drains away at this time of year to leave pasture behind more food for the yaks. |
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| At each of the clinics all of the yaks in the village would be dewormed. |
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| In Lukla, you will meet your trek support team, your porters and the yaks. |
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| They had to sell their yaks in order to make do. |
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| The initial part of our journey was spiked with challenges as our yaks had not opened up the route because the herders were busy picking potatoes. |
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| In 1981 the communities were broken up and the collectively owned animals were equably divided among them, each receiving 5 yaks, 25 sheep and 7 goats. |
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| Some of them were VERY insulting and indicated that to these men I enjoyed less status than that which we afforded yaks, or the vultures which fed upon the dead. |
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| In July 2009, one month after returning home to the United States, Dr. Fox received information explaining that the yaks that had been treated were making more milk! |
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| Other animals used to a lesser extent for this purpose include sheep, goats, camels, buffaloes, yaks, reindeer, horses and donkeys. |
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| Also to educate the local yak owners on how to deworm yaks. |
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| Wearing a thick fur coat, yaks don't yammer about the cold. |
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| The small and odd-looking cattle of Nepal, for example, have proven through zoological study to be a dihybrid mixture of taurines, miniature zebu, and Tibetan yaks. |
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| Lots of Yak trains on the way, Yaks being the only means of carrying large loads up to the villages and base camps of the various mountains. |
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| Yaks provide wool and milk by-products such as butter, which are sold or bartered for grain. |
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