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Keywords :
Zoology, Livestock, Animal-powered Transport, Biology, Pack Animal, Yak, Wardrop, Llama, Business / Finance
market share should perhaps pause for a moment and look at competition from a low-tech quarter. According to a recent World Bank report, demand for upland pack animals is strong.
A correspondent in the Financial Times of May 23 writes that the report "shows that in the key parameters of ton/mile speed, energy
conversion efficiency and Gforce rejection (ability to can extra-wide loads on class A tracks) the yak outscores the opposition comprising the mule, mountain dromedary, Funmark reindeer and the llama group."
The letter writer could we have an axe (or could that be yak?) to grind. He is one D. Wardrop, director of the UKYAK Club.