Similarly,
muskoxen (Ovibus moschatus) generally are prey only for wolves, or wolves and Man (Gray 1987; Mech 1992).
These include soil and water contamination from spills; alteration of vegetation and drainage from roads; and the disturbance of subsistence hunting opportunities for
muskoxen, polar bears, caribou, and other wildlife.
Male
muskoxen first scrape their horns along the ground.
Iqaluktutiaq Voices: Local Perspectives about the Importance of
Muskoxen, Contemporary and Traditional Use and Practices.
In winter
muskoxen are visible at great distances, like peppercorns on a white tablecloth.
Journey to Churchill is home to polar bears,
muskoxen, Arctic fox, wolves, and others creatures that make up the most comprehensive northern species exhibit of its kind in the world.
Muskoxen are the only obvious remnant of a long-past ice age when they occupied the very top of the earth alongside wooly mammoths.
Muskoxen are a very unique species that biologists believe migrated to North America between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago.
It has been suggested that snow cover is an important factor affecting mortality, reproduction and distribution of caribou and reindeer Rangifer tarandus and
muskoxen Ovibos moschatus on arctic tundra (Klein 1968, Reimers 1983, Schaefer & Messier 1995, Ferguson 1996, Larter & Nagy 2001, Tyler 2010).
Washington, August 21 (ANI): A new study has found that young
muskoxen conserve heat almost as well as adults, a finding that runs contrary to a longstanding assumption among scientists that young animals should be more vulnerable in extreme cold.
ABSTRACT: Reintroductions of
muskoxen (Ovibus moschatus), European bison (Bison bonasus), and moose (Alces alces) have occurred recently in Russia.