Drawing Animals. Written and illustrated by Maurice Wilson. Published in 1964.
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Get yak'd
I got these from the charity Tibet Relief Fund :3
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Caravan of Yaks by Vasily Vereshchagin, 1875.
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Wild yaks near Zonag Lake in Hoh Xil, north-west China’s Qinghai province. The region boasts splendid views of snow mountains, lakes and grasslands
Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock
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Yaks at the Mardi Himal Base Camp in Lumle, Nepal
Taken by Sanjay Hona
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Carel Willink (Dutch, 1900-1983), De yaks [The Yaks], 1953. Oil on canvas, 80 x 93 cm.
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The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh, and oxygen-poor conditions of the Tibetan Plateau. In the mountainous regions of Asia, yak and yak-cattle hybrids serve as vital sources of meat, milk, transportation, and fuel. However, little is known about their history: when or where yak were domesticated.
As reported in Science Advances, the researchers zeroed in on this date using ancient DNA from a single male yak that lived alongside domestic cattle and yak-cattle hybrids in a settlement known as Bangga, a community in the southern Tibetan Plateau located at an elevation of approximately 3,750 meters (12,300 feet) above sea level.
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Lying buffalo, 1960s-1970s. Paper, watercolor. Georgy Evlampievich Nikolsky (1906-1973)
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Newton has a heart on his side.
[Image Description: a photo showing a side view of an adolescent yak. He is white with brown spots, and has a brown spot on his side in the shape of a heart. End ID.]
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Yak!!
[ID: an illustration of a yak facing forward and to the left with one hoof raised. The background is a stylized mountain scape. End.]
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Honestly Alecto is the most understandable character, imagine being the fucking earth trusting some guy with everything you got hoping that he would save you, and not only he does the opposite but he also traps you into a fucking flesh puppet that from our perspective would be like being trapped in a like fucking microbe body... She had every right to go absolutely insane
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