Animals / Mammal

Wild yak

Bos mutus · Bovidae

The wild yak is a large, wild bovine native to the Himalayas. It is the ancestor of the domestic yak.

Where the Wild yak lives

Recorded in China, India, Russia, Mongolia, Nepal and Bhutan (Asia).

Most records fall in Qinghai, Xizang, Sichuan, Gorno-Altay, Xinjiang and Yunnan.

See the Wild yak’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Vulnerable (VU). At risk: it could become endangered. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 1,096 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.