Yak vs. Wolf: The ultimate battle of brains vs. brawn

[@jairocruz-rua9079]

The Yak is on grass land and the wolves are on gravel. Never shown in the same shot. A story that never happened.

[@evertonmiranda2004]

High quality content, please keep it coming.

[@matthewstevens2700]

Fake scene, as often happens in wildlife filming. Wolves and yak never appear in the same shot. Why? They were filmed in separate locations at different times. I once provided a film location and a lurcher for a supposed lamping scene in an episode of the BBC's series "Wildlife on One." The dog and hare featured in the scene never actually came within thirty miles of one another.

[@fjb4932]

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[@joshdewitt8796]

Basically. “Hey we got this footage of the yak we startled, what do we do with it?” “Idk splice it with that footage of the wolves we saw that were doing nothing”

[@moons4768]

That’s what I was thinking..he was angry at the cameraman. He was looking right at the camera.

[@SimonTimoney-74]

Bollox

[@jonjones7665]

So what? If you tell me Yaks and wolves never interact that is different but hey I guess they do. Good story.

[@razzaus1570]

The yak won so effectively the wolves never got closer than 10 miles.

[@HuckleberryHim]

Unreal footage of such a rare and awesome animal, legit gave me goosebumps to watch that big boy move. Majestic af, fantastic work.

[@arystanbeck914]

Dude, yaks are actually domesticated animals. My grandfather used to have a few. They are not rare.

[@HuckleberryHim]

@@arystanbeck914 The wild yak is rated as "vulnerable" and was recently considered endangered. There are only a few thousand left in the world, in a pretty small range. It is indeed not a common animal, and I very rarely come across footage of it, especially at this quality. Domesticated water buffalo, yaks, cattle, camels, horses, etc are all common. Their wild counterparts are not. That's often how it goes with humans. And they are very distinct; wild yaks are much bigger; they're some of the biggest bovids in the world, and among the biggest land animals period.

[@outerspace8158]

Yak truly beast herbivore

[@indyreno2933]

The Yak (Poephagus grunniens) is a large cattle native to Central Asia, it is the second largest living cattle species, the second largest living bovine, and the second largest living bovid in the world, it is the only extant species of the genus Poephagus and the closest living relative of both the European Bison (Bison bonasus) and the American Bison (Bison bison), the scientific name of the yak means "grunting grass-eater" in latin.

[@maxdc988]

Yak is the prettiest of them all. 😂

[@calzabbath]

Thanks, I have just learned the ancestor word of “gruñir” (to grunt) in my native Spanish

[@WaMo721]

Tibet

[@HuckleberryHim]

They're usually placed in the genus Bos these days, alongside cattle, gaur, and banteng.

[@indyreno2933]

@HuckleberryHim, not anymore, the Bos genus is polyphyletic and is now restricted only to the aurochsen with only two extant species: the Paleotropical Aurochs (Bos namadicus (cladistically including the Zebu (Bos namadicus indicus) and Sanga (Bos namadicus africanus))) and the Palearctic Aurochs (Bos primigenius (cladistically including the Taurine Ox (Bos primigenius taurus) and Mandarin Ox (Bos primigenius mandarinus))) while the gaur, banteng, and kouprey all now belong to the genus Bibos and the yak now belongs to the monotypic genus Poephagus so the scientific names of the gaur, banteng, kouprey, and yak are now Bibos gaurus, Bibos javanicus, Bibos sauveli, and Poephagus grunniens respectively As far as told the genera Bibos and Poephagus are not closely related to aurochsen (genus Bos) at all, the latter is more closely related to the bison (genus Bison) while the former is the most basal and distantly related from all of the four extant genera of true cattle (subtribe Bovina) "Cattle" refers to the tribe Bovini as a whole just like "owl" and "parrot" refer to the entire orders Strigiformes and Psittaciformes despite "true cattle" being more specifically used for the subtribe Bovina just like "true owl" and "true parrot" are specifically used for the family Strigidae and the superfamily Psittacoidea respectively To be fair there are now 72 extant genera of bovids, so here are all 72 extant bovid genera and their species:

[@prasenjeetrathore]

Tibet is a beautiful country.

[@chocolatesquirrel2002]

great prewentation, it almost look that the animals were seeing each other lol

[@HappyHermitt]

Majestic animal

[@MetalTechify]

No wonder wolf said “nahhhh”

[@cilikponpon]

Yak is way more beautiful than their long relative Bison

[@darta1094]

Magnificent bull. No matter if this is a montage. Yak looks great.

[@supratikpaul9772]

I am sure, the video of the yak and the wolves were sewd together to build a story, nevertheless, I am very interested to know what the wolves killed as one of them had fresh blood on their leg..

[@antoniescargo1529]

No subtitles please!

[@butchbinion1560]

Thanks. ✌🏻👊🏼

[@НиктоНикто-я2ь]

Спасать надо диких яков.

[@CeBme]

Yes we do

[@SanoyNimbus]

I am wondering. Considering the way wolves (canines) attack its prey ... that hair in the underbelly seems like a good protection. Makes it hard to get a good grip for the wolves.

[@wolfdaddy7098]

There has not been 1.5 million years.

[@cordulacoops1030]

Useless and annoying music disturbing the sounds of nature

[@yakrightsassociation]

YAKS HAVE BRAINS AND BRAWNS!!! support our cause! 😊😊😊

[@arystanbeck914]

Yaks have no more brains than cows. They are raised and then slaughtered for food

[@nomcognom2414]

One must suppose that by "Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau" it is just good old Tibetan Plateau being meant, which covers most of Tibet and streches into neighboring countries, China included.

[@Mady-lo6qb]

Wolf doesn't look scared. Since you never show both animals in the same shot, this could be footage taken on different days and spliced together. It would have been better if you had simply said that the wolf decided to look for an easier meal. It would be more believable.

[@HuckleberryHim]

Also is this part of a documentary or something, does anyone know

[@lawrencemorris2261]

Cgtn original I believe. Shadowbanned on yt.

[@HuckleberryHim]

@@lawrencemorris2261 That's lame. Any idea how I can watch it? Never knew China was making such awesome docs

[@lawrencemorris2261]

@@HuckleberryHim I haven't been there in a while so I don't know exactly where, but you possibly can find it on their website.

[@tuco0x]

The Yak has a Mass of 800 kilogram and weight of 7.85 kN (kilonewton). It is the 21st Century not the 18th Century. If you are going to use the old, obsoulte metric system, then the weight would be kilogram-force as apposed to kilogram-mass.

[@johnogrady670]

Somebody suffering from cabin fever.

[@user-lo3zu7rg6v]

اريس الحسين بوتيري ❤❤❤👍👉

[@tyhouston2750]

1.5 million years ago! 😂 Spiny tongue evolved just to help them eat grass…yup just like the rattle snake decided to grow a rattle because he really needed it! 😂

[@PhillipYewTree]

White coats are better insulators. Dark coats loose heat quickly from the body.

[@forestranger312]

These pathetic click bait title drive me nuts. Why!

[@luboskalina2813]

Luxus!👍

[@antibureaucrat]

Anthropomorphic to the hilt - geez, bad. DO NOT ASSIGN human emotions/rationale to these beautiful animals. Yes, I'm an animal behaviorist - you wouldn't be on my team

[@tonyb83]

CLICK BAITE TITLE

[@isaacstone7899]

Both are amazed animals, but wolf creatures to be prey for food, they have to hunt team and yak creatures to live and eat, except bull as alpha lead and protect group to green pastures for food.

[@michaelsteven1090]

Click bait

[@flightographist]

This is anti content, get it together.

[@LindaLopez-g9q]

Emard Pine

[@ejkelley2364]

should have known this was a joke

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

800 kilos is almost 2,000 lbs. I highly doubt even male bull Yaks weight HALF that much. They're pretty much all HAIR. MY bull weighs over 2,000 lbs. That's solid meat.

[@roygbiv5164]

Actually, wild yaks can weigh well over 2000 lbs, they are enormous.

[@Requiredfields2]

You see the animal in the video right? Does it really look like it's all hair? Wild, not domestic, yaks weigh between 1,100-2,600 pounds.

[@jim-re3oi]

You are in error - males often weigh in excess of 2000lbs.

[@mikelundrigan2285]

Wild male yaks can weigh as much as 2600 lbs for very big individuals … fact!

[@SharpViola-g6d]

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[@stupitdog9686]

Apparently a total feed of poo !!

[@biblicaltheologyexegesisan9024]

get rid of the millions and billions of evolutionary thought just say when God created them to be....

[@larstueschjth2658]

Ultimate? LMAO 😭😭😭 WHAT A 💩SHOW! 🤮🙄👎