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  <dc:contributor>George B. Schaller</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>David M. Leslie Jr.</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2009</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bos grunniens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; Linnaeus, 1766, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bos mutus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; (Przewalski, 1883) are the domestic and wild forms, respectively, of the bovid commonly called the yak. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;B. mutus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; inhabits remote high-elevation alpine meadows and alpine steppe in rolling to mountainous terrain in the Tibetan Plateau, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;B. grunniens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; is maintained widely in China and other parts of Central Asia, and uncommonly elsewhere in the world. Populations of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;B. mutus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; are substantially reduced and fragmented throughout its remaining range; the largest numbers occur in northern Tibet and western Qinghai. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;B. mutus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; is vulnerable because of poaching and competition with domestic livestock. Although no complete survey of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;B. mutus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; has been conducted, there are probably no more than 15,000 remaining in remote areas of the Tibetan Plateau; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;B. grunniens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; numbers about 14 million.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1644/836.1</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>American Society of Mammalogists</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>&lt;i&gt;Bos grunniens&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Bos mutus&lt;/i&gt; (Artiodactyla: Bovidae)</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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