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Yak Summary
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Yak (female, nik; bos grunniens) is a species of bovid native to the high Tibetan Plateau. Though vanishing in the wild, where it usually does not descend below 4,300 meters, it is much domesticated and so is widely used as a beast of burden in Tibet,...
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Yak Information
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The yak (Bos grunniens, but also Poephagus grunniens, though this new name is not universally accepted) is a long-haired bovine found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia. In...


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Albuquerque Journal
Yak on the range
12/19/2004: 1,089 words, approx. 4 pages
Shaggy Himalayan species seems right at home in mountainous New Mexico LATIR RANCH -- Up on a grassy platter of ground midway between Taos and the Colorado border, more than 100 shaggy head of yak stand in a bunch, warm under their wool...
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Albuquerque Journal
Yak on the Range
12/19/2004: 1,089 words, approx. 4 pages
Shaggy Himalayan species seems right at home in mountainous New Mexico LATIR RANCH -- Up on a grassy platter of ground midway between Taos and the Colorado border, more than 100 shaggy head of yak stand in a bunch, warm under their wool...
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The New York Observer
Keller to Staff: Nix the Yak
4/11/2005: 386 words, approx. 1 pages
We depart from our usually tight focus to bring this dispatch from Tom Scocca, our media guy, who got his hands on a memo that probably wasn't sent to him: This afternoon, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller announced that any story over 1,800...
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The New York Observer
Todd Eberle\'d5s Birthday Bash With the Basses: Serena Caters While Anne Yaks With Artists
10/9/2007: 494 words, approx. 2 pages
On Thursday, Oct. 4, celebrity shutterbug Todd Eberle hosted a birthday party for himself at the new apartment he and his partner, creative director Richard Pandiscio, recently bought in the new 40 Mercer building designed by Jean Nouvel. Although invitations had been issued but two...
 


 

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