Wild yaks: Shaggy barometers of climate change
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
A new study led by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), University of Montana, Qinghai Forestry Bureau, Keke Xili National Nature Reserve, and other groups finds that climate change and past hunting in the remote Tibetan Plateau is forcing female wild yaks onto steeper and steeper terrain.