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A man in a high altitude village of Arunachal Pradesh milks a yak, while the Yak feeds. Meanwhile, another Yak snorts out condensed air, in the cold mountains. Viewer Amit Agarwal probably rightly suggests that this is not a yak but a cross-breed. What do you think, viewers? He further adds: "It is easy to see that - the ruminants are fairly comfortable at higher temperature than Yaks can tolerate; a Yak would give a max of about 2 litres of milk whereas from the video it appears the ruminant yield may be higher and finally the ruminant does not appear to have the Yak wool coat. You may please confirm these to your satisfaction and then put a more appropriate caption for your video." The yak or Bos grunniens for the domesticated, Bos mutus for the wild animal is a long-haired bovine found
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