The yakalo is a cross of the
yak
The domestic yak (''Bos grunniens''), also known as the Tartary ox, grunting ox or hairy cattle, is a species of long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent, the Tibetan Plateau, Kachin S ...
(''Bos grunniens'') and the
American bison
The American bison (''Bison bison'') is a species of bison native to North America. Sometimes colloquially referred to as American buffalo or simply buffalo (a different clade of bovine), it is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the ...
(''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. 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.
[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.
See also
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Beefalo
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Dzo
A dzo (also spelled zo, zho and dzho, bo, མཛོ་, mdzo) is a hybrid between the yak and domestic cattle. The word dzo technically refers to a male hybrid, while a female is known as a or . In Mongolian, it is called a (хайнаг). ...
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Żubroń
Footnotes
Bovid hybrids
Intergeneric hybrids
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