DURING my various arctic expeditions I have learnt a good deal about the ovibos (musk ox) from conversation with the Eskimos, and perhaps more from actual observation. Especially when we were in M ...

TASS/. The population of musk oxen, which first were brought to Yakutia's Arctic districts in 1996, reached 6,500 animals, the region's Ministry of Ecology, Nature Management and Forestry told TASS.

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The muskox sculpture bears little resemblance to its namesake, Elon Musk ... Arctic tundra and are native to Canada, Greenland and the US state of Alaska. While they bear a resemblance to oxen ...

JOHN J. TEAL, JR., is an authority on the arctic, where his attention has been drawn to the musk ox, that huge docile animal with its silken fleece which has been hunted almost to extinction.