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The Bankhar dog (Buryat: хотошо, Mongolian: банхар, Russian: Бурят-монгольский волкодав), is a landrace livestock guarding dog. Originally bred by the Buryat people , their success contributed to their spread across Buryatia and Mongolia and into adjacent regions before they were nearly annihilated in the mid ...
The Central Asian Shepherd Dog, also known as the Alabay, Alabai (Turkmen: Alabaý, Kazakh: Төбет) and Turkmen Wolf-Hound (Туркменский волкодав), [2] is a livestock guardian dog breed. Traditionally, the breed was used for guarding sheep and goat herds, as well as to protect and for guard duty.
Canada is the second largest investor in Mongolia. There are 20 mining and exploration firms that as of 2008 invested approximately $400 million in Mongolia. [ 9 ] Ivanhoe Mines and Rio Tinto Group were in disagreement with Mongolia over the sharing of profits of the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine.
A snout is the protruding portion of an animal's face, consisting of its nose, mouth, and jaw. In many animals, the structure is called a muzzle , [ 1 ] rostrum , beak or proboscis . The wet furless surface around the nostrils of the nose of many mammals is called the rhinarium (colloquially this is the "cold wet snout" of some mammals).
Mongolian Canadians are Canadian citizens who are descended from migrants from Mongolia. According to the 2021 Census by Statistics Canada, there were 9,090 Canadians who claimed full or partial Mongolian ancestry. Canada Mongolia Chamber of Commerce, established by Mongolian Canadians, helps to connect business and people between the two ...
The Caucasian Shepherd Dog or Caucasian Ovcharka is a large livestock guardian dog native to the Caucasus region, notably Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Dagestan. [1] It was bred in the Soviet Union from about 1920 from dogs of the Caucasus Mountains and the steppe regions of Southern Russia . [ 2 ]
Rhinicthys means snout fish (reference to the long snout) and cataractae means of the cataract (first taken from Niagara Falls). Longnose dace are small, typically less than 100 mm and characterized by their fleshy snout that protrudes past the mouth. They are well adapted for living on the bottom of fast-flowing streams among stones.
Turano-Mongolian cattle are morphologically distinct from the European taurine cattle especially in the shape of their skull and their horns. [2] [3] The skull is wedge-shaped and has a narrow crown and a depression on the frontal bone. The horns grow upwards instead of forwards. [3] Genetically the difference can be seen in the mtDNA ...