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Received: 30 May 2017

Accepted: 28 November 2017

First Online: 29 January 2018

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: TS is assistant professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies in Tokyo, Japan. The manuscript presents results of his two-year research project on ‘Traditional and present livestock husbandry practices in the Mongolian Altai Mountains’. ES is professor and head of the section of Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics at the University of Kassel and the University of Göttingen, Germany.

: All households and household members, who participated in this interview-based study, did so voluntarily after having been informed about the aims and scope of the study and with the insurance that their identity would not be revealed.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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