Who is this?

[steamy teabag]

His middle name is bad ass.

 

[Butcherbill]

Awesome photo.

 

[Rob]

James L. Clark is also the author of "The Great Arc of the Wild Sheep", an excellent accounting of the wild sheep species from North American desert bighorns in the south, north through the thin horn sheep species, across to the NE Russian/Asiatic bighorns and sweeping southwest through the ranges of the Argalis and Urials to the Mouflon on the Middle East. It's a book well worth reading and owning.

I've had a copy of that book sitting on a shelf for decades. I didn't realize who the author was...I have also long admired the wildlife dioramas in the AMNH, which I now have learned he was largely responsible for completing after Carl Akeley's death.

https://taxidermyhalloffame.org/james-l-clark/

 

[conor_90]

Nevermind hipster mountain hunting llamas where do I get my hands on a couple of yaks?

 

[wjklassen]

In the late 1970s a fellow brought a cow and bull yak to the Yukon intending to raise them. The bull got away and was never recovered; I don't remember what became of the cow. There's a yak farm in Wildwood, AB. Here's the link:

https://www.theyakranch.ca/

 

[MiG25]

"The Great Arc of the Wild Sheep" is one of my favourite books, I've read it many times.

The Yak's name was Pegasus.

His companion on that trip wrote a book which is well worth the read as well with interesting details on the early Soviet Union and Mongolia.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43519

 

[conor_90]

In the late 1970s a fellow brought a cow and bull yak to the Yukon intending to raise them. The bull got away and was never recovered; I don't remember what became of the cow. There's a yak farm in Wildwood, AB. Here's the link:

https://wwwwww.theyakranch.ca

Not just any yaks, high quality yaks.

I studied yaks (and Llamas) in a past life. Cool animals

 

[hoytcanon]

Genghis Khan?

 

[Rob]

Apparently, he liked "camels" too. I just noticed him in this cigarette ad on the back page of an Outdoor Life magazine from July 1936.