Recently, Tao Xi Angzha, the guardian of Qinghai Sanjiangyuan National Park, found a very spectacular scene when he patrolled the mountains, a population of 200 or 300 wild yaks appeared at the foot of the mountain, they are leisurely grazing, such a large-scale wild yak appeared in the area is very rare.
Yaks live on the Tibetan Plateau at 3,000 to 5,000 meters, and yaks are very hardy animals, even when temperatures are extremely cold at -40 °C. Yaks are mostly black and brown, and their sides, abdomen and legs are covered with long hairs, which is also their magic weapon against the cold.
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The earliest appearance of wild yaks is not in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, three million years ago, their ancestors mainly lived in the northeast of Eurasia, however, due to crustal movement and climate change, the original place has not adapted to survival, yaks began to relocate collectively, they went all the way south, to China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region, where there are rich pasture resources, but the climate is cold, so in the long process of evolution, they have trained the ability to stand hard work, hardiness, resistance to hypoxia, hunger and thirst.
However, the ecosystem of the Tibetan Plateau is very fragile, and there are relatively few species of animals living there, making yaks the most important source of livelihood and economy for the local people. For the locals, it is not an exaggeration to say that yaks are full of treasures, yak milk can be drunk or made into ghee, yak beef is a very good and delicious food, yak hair can be used for clothes and tents, yak skin is also a good material for tanning, even if you look at useless yak dung, you can make fuel.
In addition, yak is an important means of transportation for the locals and an important productive force for farming.
Therefore, there is such a passage circulating on the Internet so far, "Eating Cordyceps sinensis, drinking mineral water, urinating out is oral liquid, pulling is a six-flavored yellow pill", which is a joke about the yak's treasure.
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It is precisely because the role of yaks in people's lives is too important, from ancient times to the present, the Tibetan people have the totem worship of yaks, with the development of history, yaks have become an important part of Tibetan culture.
There is a myth circulated in the Tibetans that in ancient times, after the union of a female yak and a human man, he gave birth to a son named Masan, who was a minotaur because Masan was a product of man and cattle. Since a demon had turned into a black yak at that time, Masan decided to defeat the black yak.
When Anda, the king of the gods, learned of Masan's thoughts, he told him that the third eye on the black yak's forehead was his weakness, and that he could win by hitting this eye, and Masan finally shot the third eye of the black yak with an iron arrow, and then nailed it with a nail, winning the victory, so that the local people can still be seen in their homes, with such bull heads.
In fact, there are many mythical stories about yaks, most of which are about the story between humans and yaks. These myths and stories undoubtedly highlight the high status of yaks, in ancient times when technology was not developed, Tibetan ancestors relied more on yaks, so their clans mostly used yaks as totem symbols.
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Since many Tibetan clans use yak as a totem symbol, what is the combat effectiveness of yak?
In fact, there are more than 200 kinds of mammals living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there is no shortage of top predators brown bears, wolves, snow leopards, etc., wild yaks are the largest of these animals, in the eyes of wild yaks, there is no top predator at all, they themselves are the overlords of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, almost no animal dares to challenge their authority, after all, they have suffered a lot.
The size of the brown bear is huge, the combat effectiveness is naturally not a problem, but in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is often bullied by wild yaks, there have been geological exploration team members, witnessed the wild yak fat beating more than two meters tall brown bear, and countless times the wild yak overturned the car.
Therefore, the fighting power of the wild yak is very strong, and it can withstand the worship of human beings for its totem.
Of course, the ecological chain of nature is linked one by one, and on the combat ability of a single one, the yak can indeed easily defeat the wolf, but in terms of IQ and team combat ability, the wolf is obviously better. In the wild, once the wild yak is single, the wolves who like to fight in groups can take down the yak, of course, this method is still more useful for dealing with the old, weak, sick and disabled yak, once it encounters a strong adult yak, the wolf pack is also helpless to the yak.
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The fighting power of wild yaks is indeed very strong, so people who like to travel, in the wild will inevitably encounter wild yaks, will there be a danger to their lives?
In fact, the wild yak is a herbivores, a day can eat 32 kilograms of leaves and grass, in its eyes, humans are not their own food, there is no need to actively attack humans, plus the courage of wild yaks is relatively small, so in general, wild yaks will not take the initiative to attack humans.
If it is not in ordinary circumstances, it is difficult to say, especially from July to November every year, when if you see wild yaks, you can go as far as you can, because this season belongs to the mating period of wild yaks.
The mating of wild yaks belongs to the mating right to obtain by fighting power, and by the mating season, the male yaks will compete with the female yak for mating rights, and the winning party can mate with the female yak, and in many cases, the stronger side can mate with multiple female yaks, which leads to a part of the male yak being unable to mate.
Failed male yaks will walk out of the herd alone, wander around to vent their temper, and when they encounter humans or other animals, they will take the initiative to attack.
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In recent years, with the strengthening of China's ecological protection efforts, the wild animals that were originally lost in many areas have returned, and many wild animals have returned to the pilot of the Sanjiangyuan National Park system, which proves that the current method of protecting ecology in China is feasible.