The Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) has approved the Himalayan Yak as a ‘food animal’. The move is expected to help check decline in the population of the high-altitude bovine ...

The Himalayan yak has been accepted as a food animal by the scientific panel of Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI), after recommendation from Department of Animal Husbandry and ...

Melodee Smith just wanted one yak when she drove to Cold Spring, Minn., years ago. When she returned to Clear Spring Farm in Welch, Minn., she had seven. Now, with 35 yak in her herd, and nine more on ...

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 ...

Move slowly. That’s the first thing you learn here. The yaks don’t like sudden movements. Lynda Gehring models her advice well. The sun is coming out on this cool and windy this morning, so Lynda ...

All wild cattle have a keen sense of smell, and the yak is no exception. Yaks are constantly sniffing to collect information about each other, their enemies, and food sources. Males spend a great deal ...

WELCH — From a distance, Melodee Smith's herd looks like a unusually fuzzy group of cattle. They're black with some white and brown and stand about stomach high on the average human. While in stature ...

The classification of the yak as a food animal is intended to slow the decrease of the high-altitude bovine population. Classifying yak as a food animal will commercialize yak milk and meat products ...