The Yaaku community was later assimilated by a food producing population and they lost their way of life.
Their language, Yaakunte, was kept alive for some time by the Mukogodo who had all along maintained their own hunter-gathering way of life.
An area of particular focus appears to have been bee-keeping, a heritage maintained by the Mukogodo Maasai today.
They occasionally hunted and trapped both small and large animals besides their day to day foraging activities...Even though Mukogodo hunters did pursue a wide variety of species, the main source of meat in their diet was the rock hyrax because it was simple to capture.
[5] The Mukogodo hunted rhinoceros for their horn, which they traded with their neighbors for livestock, crops, and manufactured goods like beads and iron.
[7] The Mukogodo/Yaaku assimilated to the pastoralist culture of the Maasai in the first half of the twentieth century (1920's and 30's), although some still keep bees.