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Bat-Ulzii is a district (soum) with around 7500 inhabitants and 1530 herding households. The district is located northwest in the Övörkhangai province in the Khangai region of Central Mongolia. Bat-Ulzii is divided into six bags. During the summer of 2024 Guro did her fieldwork in the 5th bag, which contains 177 households with livestock and around 45 actively herding. The area’s ecology is relatively affluent, with green grass plains and mountain valleys with pine forests. The herders in this area mostly have a combination of horses, sheep, goats, yak and Mongolian cattle. Most herders in the 5th bag live relatively close to the soum centre during summer while moving further up in the mountains during winter. In the wintertime, several households stay close in the same winter camp to share the work related to herding. These herding groups are known as Khot-ails. Guro investigates how different evolutionary mechanisms can explain cooperation between herders, and how cooperation influen

Mongolia Rwanda Cameroon Mongolia Bat-Ulzii is a district ( soum ) with around 7500 inhabitants and 1530 herding households. The district is located northwest in the Övörkhangai province in the Khangai region of Central Mongolia. Bat-Ulzii is divided into six bags. During the summer of 2024 Guro did her fieldwork in the 5 th bag, which contains 177 households with livestock and around 45 actively herding. The area’s ecology is relatively affluent, with green grass plains and mountain valleys with pine forests. The herders in this area mostly have a combination of horses, sheep, goats, ya

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