YAK
So i missed a good chunk of shark week last night, but I will give you a summary later (I went diving with my dad instead). Right now I have a break in classes and I am brushing up on my Tibetan knowledge in Suzzalo. I am reading a book called Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet, and despite all the depressing shit like you might assume from the title here is a pleasant passage about yaks. This is more for my sister than any one else, but it is too long for a text message..
The yak, a long-haired bison type creature described by Paul Theroux as 'like a cow on its way to the opera', is typically Tibetan and probably the most useful animal ever born. Able to live only at high altitudes, and subsisting solely on grasses and lichens, it is a powerful beast of burden and many other things besides. As well as being the main means of transport, the male yak was a source of meat, while the female dri gave milk, butter, cheese and yogurt. Its skin provided boots and saddlebags; its hair was the source not only of tents but of blankets, ropes and clothing; its bones were used for building houses, its backbone was crushed and mixed with gold dust for a female contraceptive; and its dung, when dried, was everywhere used for fuel and insulation.
Lets go find us some yaks when we get there.
http://www.m-w.com/mw/art/yak.gif
The yak, a long-haired bison type creature described by Paul Theroux as 'like a cow on its way to the opera', is typically Tibetan and probably the most useful animal ever born. Able to live only at high altitudes, and subsisting solely on grasses and lichens, it is a powerful beast of burden and many other things besides. As well as being the main means of transport, the male yak was a source of meat, while the female dri gave milk, butter, cheese and yogurt. Its skin provided boots and saddlebags; its hair was the source not only of tents but of blankets, ropes and clothing; its bones were used for building houses, its backbone was crushed and mixed with gold dust for a female contraceptive; and its dung, when dried, was everywhere used for fuel and insulation.
Lets go find us some yaks when we get there.
http://www.m-w.com/mw/art/yak.gif
