Yak Does a Body Good

The yak is a shaggy-haired, hoofed animal found in Tibet and parts of China, surviving as high as 20,000 feet in the Himalayas, in temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius. The yak was domesticated some 5,000 years ago and is kept primarily for its milk, fur fibers, and meat, as well as to pull loads and plow fields. Butter made of yaks' milk is mixed with tea leaves and salt to make yak butter tea, a traditional Tibetan drink served to guests. Distributed by TubeMogul.

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[laslos3]

yakkaty yak

[lhapatsering]

གཡག་དང་འབྲི་གཉིས་ངོ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མི­་འདུག གཡག་ལ་འོ་མ་ཞོ་རྒྱུ་ཡོད་མེད་བསམ­་བློ་གཏོང་། དེ་ལྟར་འགྲེལ་བཤད་ལོག་པ་རྒྱབ་མི­་ཉན།

[khumbuyeti]

Sorry. This is not Yak. It is call Zo inTibetan and Zoyak in Sherpa. It is crass between either cow and yak or female yak called De in Tibetan and Nak in Sherpa and ox. The explore team is needs to be educated before making any nan sense video. You cannot get cheese or mile from yak  because yak is male, not female.

[taoxanh2007]

In other words, you are wrong on not one, or even two counts, but on three. Please inform yourself properly before making unintelligent comments on the internet. We would all appreciate it.

Thank you for your cooperation, and patience.

[taoxanh2007]

Please refrain from making completely misguided, erroneous, and pointless comments. First of all, I would like to make it clear that both the animals in the video are indeed yaks; with that in mind, I would like to say that I have eaten yak cheese myself, so don't go telling me it doesn't exist. Because you are wrong.

So yaks are not mammals, is that what you're saying?

Furthermore, the word for yak in tibetan is 'gyag' for the male, and "dri" or "nak" for the female.

[ihseyo]

Please remove this video. This is not a yak firstly and secondly milk can't be obtained from a yak. These are called ZO in Tibetan. Sorry for the comment.