BOVIDAE CAPRINAE
MUSKOX Ovibos moschatus
Yin, 2nd Trine, Fixed Element Water
1925 1937 1949 1961 1973 1985 1997 2009 2021
Dependable, ambitious, calm, methodical, born leader, patient, hardworking, conventional, steady, modest, logical, resolute, tenacious. Can be stubborn, dogmatic, hot-tempered, narrow-minded, materialistic, rigid, demanding.
Musk Ox are massive animals that weigh around 900 pounds. They are 6-8 feet long and can be up to 6 feet tall. These social animals tend to move in groups. The can survive even if the temperature falls to 100 degrees Celsius below zero. The muskox and the caribou are the only two hoofed mammals, or ungulates, that survived the end of the Pleistocene Era 10,000 years ago.
Habitat: Found in northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, Ellesmere Islands and the Arctic areas.
Fur: The soft layer of fur under the outer guard hair is called qiviut. The wool spun from qiviut is eight times warmer than sheep's wool and finer than cashmere.
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Predators: polar bears, arctic wolves, arctic fox, mosquitoes.
http://www.nunavutmuskox.ca/interesting_muskox_facts.html
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Genus: Ovibos
Species: O. moschatus
Binomial name: Ovibos moschatus
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Habitat: primarily live in Arctic North America and Greenland with small introduced populations in Sweden, Siberia and Norway.
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Reproduction: Rutting season begins in late June or July. The dominant bulls will fight to establish harems of 6-7 cowst
Predators: humans,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskox
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/2059456932/Looking at the nasal cavity of a female musk ox.
Musk oxen can survive in temperatures as low as -100 degrees Fahrenheit.
To help combat the cold the musk ox have developed spiraled nasal cavities which increases the surface area of their nose. This allows for the increased warming of the air entering the nasal cavity making less work for the musk oxen's lungs in the air-warming process.
