Domesticated yaks (Bos Grunniens or the grunting ox) are thought to have been domesticated by Qiang herdsmen on the Tibetan (Qinghai) Plateau around 4,500 years ago. The Tibetan culture of the Himalayan Plateau is intertwined with yak just as Native American Plains Indian culture is intertwined with the American Bison.
Zebras are a keystone species in the Kalahari; they are a source of food both for predators such as lions and for scavengers such as brown hyenas and whitebacked vultures. Shown here are birds surveying an injured animal on the Makgadikgadi grasslands. (Adrian Bailey).
Hartmann's zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae) is one of two subspecies of mountain zebra. As the species name suggests, this zebra lives on mountain slopes and plateaus as high as 6,500 feet above sea level.This subspecies is endemic to Namibia, Angola and South Africa, where fewer than 30,000 survive.he three zebra species are part of the Equidae family, which also includes asses and horses. Zebras are endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. The word zebra is Portuguese for wild horse.. It may also have its origin in the Latin word equiferus, another word for a type of wild horse.