muskox|muskoxen in English

noun

large bovine animal that has features of both sheep and oxen (native to arctic regions of North America and Greenland)

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1. Over 68,000 muskoxen live on the island, the majority of the world's population.

2. Muskoxen live in herds of 12–24 in the winter and 8–20 in the summer.

3. • To monitor the size and sex and age composition of the muskoxen population on the Yukon North Slope.

4. From the hartebeest of Africa and the takin of Asia to the muskox of North America, Bovids are

5. High-grade copper, nickel and PGE occurrences were historically sampled along the walls of the Muskox intrusion.

6. Waterfowl, like shorebirds, marine mammals, and muskoxen, are threatened by climate change, development, and increasing marine shipping traffic throughout Arctic Beringia.

7. They still hunt whales, walrus, caribou, seal, polar bears, muskoxen, birds, and at times other less commonly eaten animals such as the Arctic Fox.

8. Whilst the takin has in the past been placed together with the muskox in the tribe Ovibovini, more recent mitochondrial research shows a closer relationship to Ovis (sheep).

9. From the hartebeest of Africa and the takin of Asia to the muskox of North America, Bovids are among the world’s most spectacular animals and

10. The muskox (Ovibos moschatus), a member of the family Bovidae, has 48 chromosomes consisting of 12 biarmed and 34 acrocentric autosomes, an acrocentric X chromosome, and a small metacentric Y chromosome.

11. From the hartebeest of Africa and the takin of Asia to the muskox of North America, Bovids are among the world's most spectacular animals and this stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use

12. Although social animals, single wolves or mated pairs typically have higher success rates in hunting than do large packs, with single wolves having occasionally been observed to kill large prey such as moose, bison and muskoxen unaided.