Muskox
Ovibos moschatus · Mammal
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Muskoxen graze the polar tundra by day in herds of ten to twenty, more in winter, and face danger in a line or a ring of horns with the calves inside. They are not aggressive, but a provoked one has killed people. Their soft underwool, qiviut, is finer than cashmere, and Arctic peoples made tools of their horns.
- Danger
- Can wound or kill
- How it is met
- In herds, by day
- Size
- Large
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Feeds on
Arctic Willow
Gives
Sources
- Sarah Marie Elder, Ovibos moschatus (muskox). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2005.
- Wikipedia contributors, Muskox. Wikipedia, 2026.
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