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 ...

Winter on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is unfriendly to pikas. Temperatures across the barren, windy highlands routinely dip below –30° Celsius, and the grass that typically sustains the rabbitlike ...

Yak – the lifeline of pastoral nomads in high altitudes of the Indian Himalayan region – is facing the threat of gradually rising temperatures in the region. The increasing trend of environmental ...

In the North-eastern part of India, yaks are raised by the highland tribal nomads of Brokpa (in Arunachal Pradesh) and Dokpa (in Sikkim) communities. The yak plays an important role in the social and ...

Guwahati: In a significant advancement for yak genomic science, the first-ever chromosome-level genome of the Indian yak (Bos grunniens) was successfully assembled through a collaborative effort ...