Tibetan Nomads "Lord of Cattle", Tibet 2012

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Photo: It was very quiet, only the yak was grunting.

Contrary to popular belief, yak and their manure have little to no detectable odor when maintained appropriately in pastures or paddocks with adequate access to forage and water. Yak wool is naturally odor resistant.

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 due to the persistence of foetal haemoglobin throughout life. Conversely, yaks do not thrive at lower altitudes, and begin to suffer from heat exhaustion above about 15 °C (59 °F). Further adaptations to the cold include a thick layer of subcutaneous fat, and an almost complete lack of functional sweat glands.
Yaks are highly friendly in nature and can easily be trained. There has been very little documented aggression from yaks towards human beings, although mothers can be extremely protective of their young and will bluff charge if they feel threatened.
Domesticated yaks are kept primarily for their milk, fiber and meat, and as beasts of burden. Their dried dung is an important fuel, used all over Tibet, and is often the only fuel available on the high treeless Tibetan plateau.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak

Taken in: 中國 / 青海省 (show map)

Taken on: August 1, 2012

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Tibet བོད

བོད་ལྗོངས།

༢༠༡༢

Tibetan Plateau བོད་མཐོ་སྒང་ bö togang

Amdo & Gyarong ཨ་མདོ། & རྒྱལ་ རོང་ - Far East Tibet

Sogwo སོག county

Nomadic Area འབྲོག་པའི་ས

Nomad/s འབྲོག་པ། 'brog pa/ drokpa

lord of cattle/ nomad བ་ལང་དབང་ཕྱུག་ ba lang dbang phyug/ balang wangchuk

nomad སོག་ཡུལ་གྱི་འབྲོག་པ sokyül gyindrokpa

individual/ non-collectivized nomads ཁེར་རྐྱང་འབྲོག་པ kherkyang drokpa

Yak གཡག་ g.yag

female yak འབྲི། 'bri

domesticated yak

Dzo hybrid of a yak མཛོ་

tibetan pony

livestock སྒོ་ཟོག་སེམས་ཅན

horse ride ཆིབས་པ་འཆིབ chibs pa 'chib/ chippanchip

horsemanship རྟ་ཐོག་ལུས་རྩལ rta thog lus rtsal/ tatok lütsel

one skilled in horsemanship རྟ་སྐྱ་པ rta skya pa/ takyapa

Tibetan བོད་པ bod pa

Tibetan ethnicity བོད་རིགས། bod rigs

ride on horseback མི་ཞིག་རྟ་ལ mi zhig rta la/ mizhik tala

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