This post’s soulful, dark-eyed beauty is a domestic yak, Bos grunniens.
To the best of my knowledge, not one of Scotland’s emblematic domesticated bovines – its highland cattle – has reached the summit of Ben Nevis.
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Pyramid-like peaks are one of the signature features of the mountain ranges that punctuate the Tibetan Plateau.
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This wild wheat is growing in a depression.
However, its “lowland” home is on the Tibetan Plateau, so this grain is nonetheless unusually high grown – over 3,000 metres above sea level.
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Most of the starkly magnificent Changtang is now within the world’s highest nature reserve, which is also one of the largest.
Its emblematic mammal has fur more precious than gold – a circumstance which very nearly led to the species’ extinction.
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The world’s largest and highest plateau is bigger than Western Europe. Many of its plains are more than twice as high as mainland Australia’s highest peak. The China-mislabelled “Tibetan Autonomous Region” contains less than half of it.
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