White Yak – coldness-tolerating animal

White Yak – coldness-tolerating animal

Wild yak is one of the national grade A protected animals and a special produce of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with a very small quantity. It is a kind of typical coldness-tolerating animal vulnerable to hot whether.

White Yaks live on high mountains, in intermountain basins and paramos deserts and grasslands 4000~5500m above the sea level all year round. The difference of ecological environments gives birth to the three types of plateau yak, lake-around yak and white yak. Wild yaks are huge in size and the height of a male one can reach 150cm.

Except some male yaks, male yaks, female yaks, old yaks and young yaks often live together in groups of several yaks or several hundred ones.