Ovibos

Comparative ecological and behavioral adaptations of Ovibos moschatus and Rangifer tarandus.

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Canadian North 2009

Variation at high latitudes: the geography of body size and cranial morphology of the muskox, Ovibos moschatus.

General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels 2009

Historically, muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) were sufficiently numerous to be an important part of the indigenous culture on the mid-arctic islands, but were less so on the mainland until a brief pulse in commercial hunting for hides in the late 1800s and early 1900s [6].

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Canadian North 2009

Comparative ecological and behavioral adaptations of Ovibos moschatus and Rangifer tarandus.

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Canadian North 2009

The muskoxen '' Ovibos moschatus '' in north and northeast Greenland: population trends and the influence of abiotic parameters on population dynamics.

Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009

The musk ox (_Ovibos_) is perhaps the most remarkable beast of Arctic

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

The musk-sheep (_Ovibos moschatus_) is also brown, and contrasts sharply with the ice and snow, but it is protected from beasts of prey by its gregarious habit, and therefore it is of advantage to be visible from as great a distance as possible.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

There are in the New World some other very interesting animals of this group, such as the musk-ox (_Ovibos_), and the prong-horned antelope (_Antilocapra_), which last so far resembles the Cervidae that the horns, which are bifurcate, are also annually shed.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

He stated that on the heights in the interior of it there were found skulls and bones of horses, oxen, "buffaloes" (Ovibos?) and sheep in so large numbers, that it was evident that whole herds of gramimvora had lived there in former times.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

According to Arctic biologists, the quintessential example of megafaunal fortitude in the face of really bad weather is the musk ox, or Ovibos moschatus, a blocky, short-legged, highly social ungulate with distinctively curved horns and long hair that looks like shag carpeting circa 1975.

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