Pastoralism

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Table 3 Livestock composition

From: Livestock depredation by snow leopard and Tibetan wolf: Implications for herders’ livelihoods in Wangchuck Centennial National Park, Bhutan

Region	N	Yak	Horse	Sheep	Dog	Total
Choekhortoe	21	1420	37	107	29	1593
Dhur	17	1029	75	90	28	1222
Total	38	2449	112	197	57	2815
Average^a		64.45	2.95	5.18	1.5	74.07
% of the herd		86.99	3.97	6.99	2.02	100

N-number of herders in the study region
^a-Average number of livestock’s held by herd
average calculated from all herd including those that kept none

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