Mammalia · Artiodactyla

Wild Yak

Bos mutus

Massive bovine megafauna uniquely adapted to survive extreme hypoxia and temperatures below -40°C on desolate alpine plateaus between 4,000 and 6,000 meters altitude.

Realm: Terrestrial
Conservation status: VUVulnerable

Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version

Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 4 licence-filtered records across 3 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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Retained datasets (2)

eDNA from water column to characterise fish and invertebrate communities from 30 sites in the Belgian Part of the North Sea -12S (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)