First though, Tibet via China Daily's Facebook page:
China Daily
The Tibet autonomous region has sent donations to #Wuhan, donations include 50 tons of yak meat and 1,826 tons of bottled water, worth over 8.5 million yuan ($1.2 million), the goods are expected to arrive in Wuhan’s cities of Huangshi and Shiyan by Feb 19. #coronavirus #COVID19
Tibetan yak all dressed up
Possibly also of interest: The Strange Business of Subsidized Yak Insurance
And the Maasai?
A couple days before the tenth anniversary of the mass murders in New York, Washington and Shanksville we posted:
To the Maasai People: On The Anniversary of 9/11, Thanks For the Cows
There are groups of people I put in the mental filing cabinet with the label Bad Ass.
In "Just a Friendly Heads-up: Don't Mess With a Gurkha, They Think 1 on 40 is a Fair Fight" I of course linked to the story of the Gurkha who decided to stop a gang rape.
He killed three, wounded eight and chased the other 29 off.
He had a knife against firearms.
That post also had my recollection of a conversation with an old Turkish dude. He told me that during the Korean war the Turks didn't think they were outnumbered by the Chinese until the odds got over
5 or 6 to 1....
*****
They live in some rugged spots and relate to their cows the way Plains Indians related to the Bison:
big critter = life.
They no longer make the boys prove their manhood by killing a lion but they do expect them to protect the cattle and, if the lion is hungry and the kid only has a spear, the old-timers figure it's a fair fight.
Serious bad ass.
Here's a story from 2002 via the New York Times:
Where 9/11 News Is Late, but Aid Is Swift
ENOOSAEN, Kenya, June 2 — Skyscrapers are a foreign concept to the Masai who live in this corner of Kenya, where the tallest things on the vast horizon are the acacia trees and giraffes that feed on them....MORE
