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  2. Bankhar Dog - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Wildlife of Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    Two laws were enacted in 1995, the Mongolian Law on Environmental Protection and the Mongolian Law on Hunting. [10] The steppe habitat for Mongolian gazelle ( Procapra gutturosa ), an area of 275,000 square kilometres (106,000 sq mi), is reported to be the "largest remaining example of a temperate grassland ecosystem".

  4. Marmot - Wikipedia

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    Canada and east of the Mississippi in northern USA Marmota sibirica: Tarbagan marmot, Mongolian marmot, or tarvaga: Siberia Petromarmota: Marmota caligata: Hoary marmot: northwestern North America (Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Montana) Marmota flaviventris: Yellow-bellied marmot: southwestern Canada and western United ...

  5. Snout - Wikipedia

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    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).

  6. List of defunct airports in Canada - Wikipedia

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    This is an alphabetical list of abandoned airports in Canada that were at one time important enough to warrant an article. Most of these also appear in Category:Defunct airports in Canada . This list is sorted by province or territory .

  7. Oirats - Wikipedia

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    After the expulsion of the Yuan dynasty from China, the Oirats reconvened as a loose alliance of the four major western Mongolian tribes (Mongolian: дөрвөн ойрд, дөрвөн ойрaд). The alliance grew, taking power in the remote region of the Altai Mountains, northwest of Hami oasis. Gradually, they spread eastwards, annexing ...

  8. Longnose dace - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Shagai - Wikipedia

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    A large variety of traditional Mongolian games are played using the shagai pieces. Depending on the game, the anklebones may be tossed like dice, flicked like marbles, shot at with arrows, caught in the hands, or simply collected according to the roll of a die. In many games, the side on which a tossed piece lands (horse, sheep, camel, or goat ...