58 Oxen is essential to their well-being, and in winter they eat snow. In avoiding their enemies yak seem to rely chiefly on their sense of smell, which is very acute; their hearing and sight being apparently less keen. Beyond Ladak, where they are more or less secure from persecu- tion, yak are… … Fic. 11.—Group of domesticated Yak in the park at Woburn Abbey. From a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. other hand, are said to remain in the same districts throughout the year. In all parts of their habitat their favourite feeding-grounds are the patches of grass bordering the streams. When…
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