ORIGIN OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS ee | 
regarded as an intermediate between the domesticated and the 
wild cattle of the Indian type. 
The banteng, or native ox of Java, extending also well into the 
continent in the region of Burma, is a close elanive of the gaur 
and the gayal, but nearer the common or domesticated form. It 
exists both domesticated and wild. All these species have a 
much better opportunity to linger indefinitely in their natural 
Fic. 41. The yak, or wild ox of Tibet 
state than had similar species in Europe, 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. 
Stil higher up in the highlands of Tibet, fourteen to twenty 
thousand feet above the sea, is the yak (fos grunnicnus), that 
hardiest of all the cattle kind, delighting in the wildest hardships 
of that most forbidding country. He is a true ox in all essential 
particulars, not very well endowed with vision but with the 
