Good leather is always made from ox skin. Ox is also the only right animal for the Mongolian cart, a wooden cart with a pair of big wooden wheels. Although it is really slow, but the Mongols enjoy it . Usually the cart is driven by single ox, but the royal cart of Genghis Khan was driven by 80 white oxen. Ox is the symbol of sturdiness and sometimes, stubbornness.
Yaks are poppular in the cold regions of Mongolia and considered as a kind of ox.
Camel is the highest animal the Mongols raising. It is the most important livestock of the Mongols who living in the Gobi deserts. The wool of female camel is a very good natural resource of textile. It offers good transportation and meat to the people raising them. A camel can drink 20 gallon water once and survive for a month without drinking any water.