NEW YORK, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Yaks on the high Tibetan plateau, over-hunted almost to extinction, are making a comeback with a recent count finding nearly 1,000 of them, researchers say.
A team of U.S. and Chinese conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Montana counted 990 yaks in a rugged area called Hoh Xil, a national nature reserve nearly in the mid-eastern Tibetan-Himalayan highlands, a WCS release said Wednesday.