Regional/Cultural Day
Takin Nyi
The takin, Bhutan's national animal, looks like a goat decided to become a cow and gave up halfway. Legend says the Divine Madman, Drukpa Kunley, created it by eating a goat and a cow and pressing the bones together. The Motithang Takin Preserve in Thimphu is where schoolchildren go on field trips and where tourists photograph an animal that spends 90 percent of its time standing still and looking confused.
