Wild yak

Wild yak
Temporal range: Early Pliocene – Recent
Stuffed specimen in the ANSP, Pennsylvania
CITES Appendix I 
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Bos
Species:
B. mutus
Binomial name
Bos mutus
Distribution of wild yak
Synonyms
  • Species Level:
    • Poephagus mutus
  • Subspecies Level:
    • Bos grunniens mutus
    • Bos primigenius mutus
    • Poephagus grunniens mutus

The wild yak (Bos mutus) is a large, wild bovine native to the Himalayas. It's the ancestor of the domestic yak (Bos grunniens).

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