Yakalo
| Yakalo | |
|---|---|
| Domesticated | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Genus: | |
| Species: | Bos grunniens × Bison bison |
| Binomial name | |
| none | |
The yakalo is a cross of the yak (Bos grunniens) and the American bison (Bison bison, known as a buffalo in North America). It was produced by hybridisation experiments in the 1920s, when crosses were made between yak bulls and both pure bison cows and bison-cattle hybrid cows.[1] As with many other inter-specific crosses, only female hybrids were found to be fertile (Haldane's rule). Few of the hybrids survived, and the experiments were discontinued in 1928.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ Deakin, A, Muir, G W, Smith, A G (1935). "Hybridization of domestic cattle, bison and yak. Report of Wainwright experiment". Publication 479, Technical Bulletin 2, Dominion of Canada, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa; cited in: "Interspecies Hybridization between Yak, Bos taurus and Bos indicus and Reproduction of the Hybrids (14 Dec 2000.) R.C. Zhang. In: Recent Advances in Yak Reproduction, Zhao X.X. and Zhang R.C. (Eds.). International Veterinary Information Service.
- ↑ Deakin, A, Muir, G W, Smith, A G (1935). "Hybridization of domestic cattle, bison and yak. Report of Wainwright experiment". Publication 479, Technical Bulletin 2, Dominion of Canada, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa; cited in: Weiner, Gerald (2003), The Yak, Second Edition, FAO RAP Publication, pp 18, 338
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