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REBROADCAST: Yak Life

The Adaptors by Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions

Nov 5, 201508:36Science & Medicine

Wild yaks live on the roof of the world, a frosty high-elevation plateau north of the Himalayas. Conservation biologist Joel Berger, of the University of Montana and the Wildlife Conservation Society, wanted to find out...

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