Melodee Smith just wanted one yak when she drove to Cold Spring, Minn., years ago. When she returned to Clear Spring Farm in Welch, Minn., she had seven. Now, with 35 yak in her herd, and nine more on ...

The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh and oxygen-poor conditions of the Tibetan Plateau. In the mountainous regions of ...

Move slowly. That’s the first thing you learn here. The yaks don’t like sudden movements. Lynda Gehring models her advice well. The sun is coming out on this cool and windy this morning, so Lynda ...

Blake Mathys grew up on a central Ohio farm, going to exotic animal auctions with his father. They collected Scottish Highland cows, Jacob sheep and even peacocks. If it had fur or feathers, it was ...

In 2011, Tom Allan and his wife headed to Nepal to hike and search for yaks. The couple had purchased several of the animals to raise on a Michigan farm, and they wanted to see how the yaks survived ...

FAIRBANKS — Passersby at the Kaspari farm outside Delta Junction inevitably slow down for a second, or third, look. The unusual creatures dotting the fields are yaks, and although they may look out of ...

An apparently protective yak butted a Hunterdon County man last night and may have broken some of his ribs, police said. The yak, weighing 500 pounds and standing 5 feet tall, attacked the 66-year-old ...

WELCH — From a distance, Melodee Smith's herd looks like a unusually fuzzy group of cattle. They're black with some white and brown and stand about stomach high on the average human. While in stature ...