. Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement. Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated. 0I<K;J\ OI- A'J Kb ANIMALS 221 rcgarrlcd as an intermediate between the fJomesticated and the wild cattle of the Indian type. The banteng, or native ox of Java, extending also well intr^ the (ontinent in the region of Burma, is a close relative of the gaur and the gayal, but nearer the common or domesticated form. It exists both domesticaU'd and wild. All these species have a
. Domesticated animals and plants; a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domesticated races, with special reference to the methods of improvement. Breeding; Domestic animals; Plants, Cultivated. 0I<K;J\ OI- A'J Kb ANIMALS 221 rcgarrlcd as an intermediate between the fJomesticated and the wild cattle of the Indian type. The banteng, or native ox of Java, extending also well intr^ the (ontinent in the region of Burma, is a close relative of the gaur and the gayal, but nearer the common or domesticated form. It exists both domesticaU'd and wild. All these species have a much better of;fjortunity V) linger indefinitely in their natural. 1 I',. ,}). J :.!. , '.. ....'. ... 'A '1 ibcl State than had similar species in Kurope, because of the immense stretches of hills and unbroken wilderness lying along the base and up the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. Accordingly we are not surprised at being able to find here truly wild cattle. Still higher up in the highlands of Tibet, fourteen to twenty thousand feet above the sea, is the yak (Bos grunniens), that hardiest of all the cattle kind, delighting in the wildest hardships of that most forbidding country. lie is a true ox in all essential particulars, not vefy well endowed with vision but with the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davenport, E. (Eugene), 1856-1941. Boston, New York, Ginn and company
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