Ovibos moschatus - #471

Muskox
Small herd of adults and young
Geographic Distribution

Formerly Point Barrow, Alaska (USA) east to NE Greenland, south to NE Manitoba (Canada). Range now much reduced. Introduced to Seward Peninsula and Nunivak Isl, Alaska (USA); Taimyr Peninsula and Wrangel Isl (Russia); and Svalbard (Norway), where it has since died out.

Order/Family
Bovidae
Genus
Ovibos
Specific Epithet
moschatus
Image Location
Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, NU, Canada
Image Date
1979
Photographer
D Pattie