Grazing Grunting Oxen in Altai Prairie
by Victor Kovchin
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Grazing Grunting Oxen in Altai Prairie
Artist
Victor Kovchin
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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GRAZING GRUNTING OXEN IN ALTAI PRAIRIE by VICTOR KOVCHIN.
Belongs to the Gallery RUSSIAN ARTISTS NEW WAVE.
Sarlak (also sarlyk) - Yak, svoragoy, bubul, grunting ox in Altai prairie, Russia.
Powerful beautiful animal.
Yak - a bovine mammal, native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua grunting cow grunting ox sarlac sarlik, and sarluc.
Yak - The wild ox of Tibet or any of its domesticated varieties; the grunting ox. The yak is a remarkable instance of the development of the pelage under climatic influences. The modification is like that seen in the musk-ox of arctic regions, Ovibos moschatus, though altitude has done for the yak what has resulted from latitude in the case of the musk-ox. The body is covered with very long hair hanging from the shoulders, sides, and hips nearly to the ground, and the tail bears a heavy brush of long hairs. The wild animal, which inhabits the mountains of Tibet about the snow-line and descends into the valleys in winter, is of a blackish color; the back is humped; and the general form is not unlike that of the bison, though the long hair gives the animal a different appearance.
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