'bri

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'Bri ('bri) - The female of the yak (Bos grunniens). GD (from the Glossary to Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings)

[p bris],, 1) write/ draw/ paint; 2) delineate; 3) compose; 4) reduce, diminish, decrease, go down, subtract; 5) female yak/ dri; 6) 'bri gung Kagyu [IW]

female yak, ox, cow, bull, write, draw, female yak [JV]

Dri, female of the yak [RY]

1) to write, draw, paint, delineate, compose. 2) female yak, a dri. 3) abbr. of 'bri gung 4) to reduce, diminish; female yak [RY]

(med) Dri or Yak cow, Bos grunniens (Drungtso 1999, Phrin Las 1987). 'bri'i 'o ma / mar, Dri milk and butter (Phrin Las 1987)
The range of wild B. grunniens is limited to the Tibetan Plateau, which includes the western edge of Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, the southern rim of the Xinjiang, and Tibet. It's habitat consists mainly of alpine meadow, alpine steppe, and desert steppe. Recently, it has been increasingly confined to the desert steppe for not being disturbed by human activities. The herds are much smaller nowadays. The wild yak, for unknown reasons, will sometimes attack and kill their domesticated counterparts (animaldiversity.org).