Is there a more exploited animal on this planet as the yak?
Yak are your classic beast of burden. Providing transport through high altitudes and a pulley to a plough in the fields. Their soft fibrous wool is knitted and turned in to blankets and clothes. The butter is used both for eating, drinking (the “secret” taste in butter tea), as well as lanterns and sculptures in temples. Don´t start me off again on the subject of cheese. The meat is delicious, having personally enjoyed steaks and dried flesh. The tails are sold in shops as fly-swats. Even their dung is dried in the sun and burnt for fuel.
drying yak shit in Lossar
Yak physiology is well adapted to high altitudes, having larger lungs and heart than cattle found at lower altitudes, as well as greater capacity for transporting oxygen through their blood. Comfortable in altitudes between 3,200 and 5,400, they struggle to adapt to lower elevations.
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