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Wood bison
Wood bison (Bison bison athabascae), the larger subspecies of American bison and largest North American land mammal; boreal Canada and Alaska, ~8,000–10,000 free-ranging, Threatened under SARA and the US ESA, with contested subspecies status.
Yak
Yak (Bos grunniens domestic; Bos mutus wild), long-haired bovine of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau domesticated from a single wild gene pool; triple-purpose for milk, meat, and pack work, now declining in Ladakh and Bhutan.
Zebra
Zebra: African striped wild equids of genus Equus, three species (plains, mountain, Grévy's). Stripes deter biting flies; Grévy's zebra is Endangered with about 3,000 left.
Zebra (China)
Zebra (China) (斑马): African striped horses in Chinese zoos, first recorded as 'huafulu' after Zheng He's voyages, first exhibited in 1907 at the Wanshengyuan (Beijing Zoo precursor); plains zebras are now bred at Chengdu, Zhengzhou, and other Chinese zoos.
Zebroid
Zebroid: any hybrid of a zebra with another equine, also called zorse (zebra-horse) or zonkey/zedonk (zebra-donkey). Usually sterile due to mismatched chromosome counts; used for draft, riding, and display.
Zebu
Zebu (Bos indicus), humped indicine cattle, domesticated independently in the Indus Valley after Near Eastern taurine domestication; heat-adapted, spread to Africa and Asia 4000-1300 YBP, widely crossbred with Bos taurus in tropical dairying.