Welcome to MOBY, Montreal's Only Book Yak... This site is intended to be an open forum & discussion venue for Montreal's finest book persons. Topics can be erudite or simply entertaining or both. Learn about the wiki format developed by David Weekly. In any case, the Wiki concept has legs if you care to make use of it. You can build your own pages too & they will be picked-up & searched by the YAHOOS of the world - Couldn't do your sales any harm.
Perhaps someone would start a piece on the state on Montreal Book retailing -
We can discuss the state of Internet Sales in Montreal -
Adrian might like to talk about the upcoming Book Fair.
& Robert Campbell might be motivated to do a piece on Montreal Booksellers of old.
Yak... Too much loud chattering ... careful out there &
The Yak Bos grunniens is a long-haired humped domestic bovine found in Tibet and throughout the Himalayan region of south central Asia. The word yak refers to the male of the species; a female is a dri or nak. Go Figure
Wild yak (Bos mutus) stand about two meters tall at the shoulder. Domestic yak are about half that height. Both types have long shaggy hair to insulate them from the cold. Wild yak can be either brown or black. Domesticated ones can also be white. Yak milk is pink.
Domesticated yak are kept primarily for their milk and meat; they are also used as beasts of burden, transporting goods across mountain passes for local farmers and traders as well as in support of climbing and trekking expeditions. Often the pack animals are actually crossbreeds of the yak and Bos taurus (common domestic cattle). These are known in Tibetan as dzo or dzopkyo.
It is a known fact that unlike the cows, the yak grunts rather than mooing. Owing to the fact that many of them are killed for food by the Tibetans, the wild yak has become an endangered species. You'd Grunt Too - Wikipedia
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