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Muskoxen
Order : Artiodactyla
Family : Bovidae
Subfamily : Caprinae
Genus : Ovibos
Facts about the genus Ovibos, the muskoxen
One of the fastest growing sub- units for muskoxen is subunit 22B.
In addition, Ovibos is shorter and more massive.
Ray Abstract: "Bootherium appalachicolus (Rhoads), first described as a Bison, but long referred to the living musk ox genus, Ovibos, is here placed in the extinct musk ox genus, Bootherium, and compared specially to B.
As the only large mammals that live year-round on the Refuge coastal plain, muskoxen are uniquely adapted to a frigid environment. (Full text)
Petersburg, 199034, RussiaThe existing standing crop of Ovibos is naturally distributed only in the New World (NW), although muskoxen formerly lived in Eurasia (OW) as well. (Full text)
Therefore, the proper dose for a 300kg muskoxen is 30mg of xylazine and, (Full text)
VIDEO Norbert Rosing describes how muskoxen are tailor-made for cold climate. (Full text)
Although muskoxen are continuing to expand into their former range in northern Alaska and northwestern Canada, numbers of muskoxen in the 1002 Area are not likely to increase from their present level of <250 animals in the near future. (Full text)
Winter forage of muskoxen is of low quality (Staaland and Olesen 1992). (Full text)
If muskoxen are limited in their accumulation of body reserves during summer, effects of a severe winter or overuse of winter range will have greater impacts on reproductive success and survival. (Full text)
Winter habitat for muskoxen is limited in quantity because animals must select foraging areas with shallow soft snow and a high cover of vegetation. (Full text)
It appears that habitat suitable for muskoxen is widespread, and given public support and proper management, muskoxen may eventually become a more visible and familiar wildlife species in Alaska. (Full text)
Muskoxen are gregarious animals. (Full text)
" The farthest-north grizzlies now preying on muskoxen are among the least productive of brown bears in Alaska; females don't have their first litter until they are seven years old. (Full text)
The most we can say is that _Ovibos_ is a unique form, standing perhaps somewhere between oxen and sheep, and descended from an ancient ruminant type through an ancestry of which we know nothing, for the only fossil remains which are at all distinguishable from the existing genus, are yet closely similar to it, and are no older than the Pleistocene of the central United (Full text)
Muskoxen are an artifact species surviving from the late Pleistocene and the last glacial epoc. (Full text)
Others - The sport hunting of muskoxen is prohibited in the Yukon, as muskoxen are classified as "Specially Protected Wildlife" under the Yukon Wildlife Act. (Full text)
Modern muskoxen are immigrants from Greenland, by way of the United States. (Full text)
Two subspecies of muskoxen are commonly recognized, Ovibos moschatus moschatus on the mainland of Canada and O. (Full text)