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A dzo (Tibetan མཛོ་ mdzo tso) is a male hybrid of a yak and a domesticated cow. A female offspring is known as a dzomo or zhom. In Mongolian it is called hainag (хайнаг). Alternative Tibetan spellings in English include zho and zo. As they are a product of the hybrid genetic phenomenon of heterosis, they are larger and stronger than cattle or yaks. Their purpose in Central Asian agriculture is very much analogous to that of the mule in the West, being used for heavy hauling and plowing.

In Nepal, yak/cow hybrids are bred using yak bulls on domestic cows or, less often, domestic bulls on yak cows. The female hybrids are fertile, the male ones are sterile and the meat is considered superior to beef. In Nepali, the hybrid is called a khainag or the Tibetan dzo (male) / dzomo (female). A dzomo crossed with either a domestic bull or yak bull results in an ortoom (three-quarter-bred) and an ortoom crossed with a domestic bull or yak bull results in a usanguzee (one-eighth-bred). As a result, many supposedly pure yak or pure cattle probably carry a dash of each other's genetic material, respectively.

There is as well a more or less English-derived name, yakow, which is a , an obvious combination of the two words yak and cow.

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Tibetan}}} 
Official status
Official language of: Tibet Autonomous Region (PRC)
Regulated by: Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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hybrid has two meanings.[1]

The first meaning is the result of interbreeding between two animals or plants of different taxa. Hybrids between different species within the same genus are sometimes known as interspecific hybrids or crosses.
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B. grunniens

Binomial name
Bos grunniens
Linnaeus, 1766

Subspecies

Bos grunniens grunniens
Bos grunniens mutus
The yak (Bos grunniens
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The Mongolian language (монгол хэл, mongol khel) is the best-known member of the Mongolic language family and the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia, where
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Not to be confused with Heterotic string theory.


Heterosis is a term used in genetics and selective breeding. The term heterosis, also known as hybrid vigor, hybrid vigour, or outbreeding enhancement
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Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. Though various definitions of its exact composition exist, no one definition is universally accepted. Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics.
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For other uses of "Mule", see Mule (disambiguation).


MULE is the MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs.

MULE provides facilities not only for handling text written in many different languages (at least 42 character sets, 53
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Nepali}}} 
Writing system: Devanagari script 
Official status
Official language of: Nepal, Sikkim (India)
Regulated by: Language Academy of Nepal
Language codes
ISO 639-1: ne
ISO 639-2: nep
ISO 639-3: nep


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bovid hybrid is a hybrid of two different members of the bovid family.

Bison/Domestic cattle hybrids

American Bison bulls (American "Buffalo") have been crossed with domestic cattle to produce Beefalo and Cattalo.
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A yakalo is a hybrid of a yak and a buffalo.

The bison (American "buffalo") has also been bred with the domestic Tibetan yak [1] to create the yakalo.

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  • Beefalo
  • Dzo

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