Fluffy Animals

Fluffy Ladakhi Animals

All the animals in Leh are a little bit hairier than their cousins on the plains. The cows are small and fluffy; there's domesticated yaks and imposing dzo (a yak-cow cross) with thick tangled coats; and small shaggy donkeys. Event the cats and dogs are hirsute.

All the animals here seem much better cared for and fed than elsewhere in India - although there's very little green stuff to eat at the moment there's large haystacks on top of each house.


I'd really like to see wild yak - apparently they can weigh over a ton and roam in herds higher up the mountains.