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Domesticated yaks are kept primarily for their milk, fibre and meat, and as beasts of burden. Their dried dung is an important fuel, used all over Tibet, and is often the only fuel available on the high treeless Tibetan plateau. Yaks transport goods across mountain passes for local farmers and traders as well as for climbing and trekking expeditions. "Only one thing makes it hard to use yaks for long journeys in barren regions. They will not eat grain, which could be carried on the journey. They will starve unless they can be brought to a place where there is grass." They also are used to draw ploughs. Yak milk is often processed to a cheese called chhurpi in Tibetan and Nepali languages, and byaslag in Mongolia. Butter made of Yaks' milk is an ingredient of the butter tea that Tibetans consume in large quantities, and is also used in lamps and made into butter sculptures used in religious festivities. Yaks grunt, and unlike cattle are not known to produce the characteristic bovine lowing sound.
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Taken in: 中國 / 青海省 / 果洛藏族自治州 (show map)

Taken on: September 26, 2009

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Tibet བོད

བོད་ལྗོངས།

Tibetan Plateau བོད་མཐོ་སྒང་ bö togang

Amdo ཨ༌མདོ

Mato county རྨ་སྟོད།

Dong chu དོང་ཆུ་ river

river. Stream ཆུ་རྒྱུན་ chu rgyun

snow dwellers.the Tibetan people གངས་རི་པའི་སྡེ gangs ri pa'i sde

one's own place/fatherland རང་ས་ rang sa

Tsogyenrawa རྩོག་ ཡེན་ ར་ ཝ་

landscape ཡུལ་ལྗོངས། yul ljongs

Snow ཁ་བ།

landscape ཡུལ་ལྗོངས།

Tibet. the country of frost འཁྱག་པའི་བོད་ཡུལ 'khyag pa'i bod yul

Tibet . the land of snows བོད་གངས་ཅན་གྱི་ཡུལ bod gangs can gyi yul

Nature རང་བྱུང་ཁམས་ rang byung

Yak གཡག་

wilderness animals དགོན་པའི་རི་དྭགས gönpé ridak

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Camera: Nikon D3, f/13.0, 1/1000 sec, 70mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D3
Aperture:	f/13.0
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/1000)
Focal Length:	70mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Capture NX 2.0.0 W
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