The herders’ way of counting sheep and goat bones is different from modern technical terms. According to this video, Kota explained that goats have fewer bones (64) than sheep (67): a pair of ribs and a spinal bone. The video also explored the cultural explanation of this phenomenon. Among livestock bones, the shortest pair of ribs closest the neck is known among the Torghuts as ‘Bogino Havs’ or ‘Khishig yas’ (fortune bone), which only the wife of the family is allowed to consume. This custom originates from the Oirat Mongolian epic, Jangar, which begins with the origin of humans. In this story, when Böh Möngön Shigshirge, one of Jangar’s twelve hero generals, is defeated by a monster, the monster takes his first pair of ribs and thyroid and then buried separately to prevent his rebirth. However, before his death, Böh Möngön Shigshirge had been engaged to one of the three daughters of Hurmast Tenger, the god of heaven. She eventually came down to earth from Tenger and saved his life by giving him her pair of ribs and thyroid. In this context, not allowing others, including husbands, to consume the animal’s first pair of ribs honours the sacrifice women make to save their husbands, symbolically allowing the wife herself take these fortune bones. Interestingly, as our videos showed, there is a story that some young males in the past who did not know the whole story verbally abused females by saying ‘Bogino Havsgui, Buh Möörsgui’ (lack of ribs and thyroid), indicating the imperfection of women. However, this is the biggest taboo result in a serious rebuke by elders, given that the imperfection is for the saving of a male life.