What are the living habits of wild yaks and what are their characteristics?

Wild yak, also known as yak, is an endemic species in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China, distributed in Tibet, southern Xinjiang, Qinghai, northwest Gansu and western Sichuan, and belongs to the national first-class protected animals. Wild yak is also called "pig singing cattle" because it sounds like a pig barking, and it is called "Jiyak" in Tibetan.

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Wild Yak Wild yak is big and heavy, slightly smaller than Indian bison, with a body length of 2 ~ 2.6m, a tail length of 0.8 ~ 1m, a shoulder height of 1.6m ~ 1.8m and a weight of 500 ~ 600kg. Its body hair is mostly dark brown and black, long and rich, especially the hair on the neck, chest and abdomen, which almost hangs to the ground, forming a curtain, hanging on the body like hemp fiber, which can shelter from the wind and rain and is more suitable for climbing ice and lying in snow. The hair on the tail is long up and down like a broom. There is a bulge in the center of the shoulder, and the abdomen is very wide. Both male and female animals have horns on their heads, and the horns are slightly backward.

Wild yak is a typical plateau animal, living in the plateau at an altitude of 3000-6000 meters. In winter, it looks for food at lower altitudes and returns to the mountains in summer. They feed on alpine desert plants, such as Stipa, Carex, Cyperus and wormwood. , illustration number: 00000123.jpg "/>;

Wild yak is a typical plateau animal, which mainly comes out for food at night and early morning, enters barren hills and cliffs during the day, stands ruminating, or lies down to rest and sleep. Wild yaks like to live in groups, often seven or eight, dozens or hundreds of them form a group. But Laoxiong is lonely, and he often lives alone in summer, with only three or four heads together. Wild yak has a keen sense of smell. When there is danger, the male bears the brunt, guarding the group and putting the cubs in the group.

Every September ~ 165438+ 10, wild yaks begin to mate in estrus. At this time, the bull became extremely fierce, and often issued a call for courtship. The phenomenon of courtship was very fierce. Some bulls will also go down the mountain and break into the yak herd, mate with the female yak, and even turn the female yak up the mountain. The gestation period of a cow is 8-9 months. From June to July of the following year, babies were born, and each baby was born 1. The cubs can move with the group for half a month after birth, wean in the summer of the following year, reach sexual maturity at the age of 3, and live for about 25 years.