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Musk Oxen

Adult bull muskoxen, Ovibos moschatus, in defensive posture. Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada.

Adult bull muskox, Ovibos moschatus, covered with frost. Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada.

Bull muskoxen, Ovibos moschatus, in a defensive circle, Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada.

Month-old baby muskox, Ovibos moschatus, Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada

Adult bull muskoxen, Ovibos moschatus, in defensive line, Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada.

Musk oxen with long coats blowing in snow laden wind, Victoria Island. Northwest, Territories, Canada. 1991

Musk Oxen Bull stands his ground beside a large rock. Victoria Island. Canadian Arctic. 1991

Musk oxen defend their calves by surrounding them. Scoresbysund, E. Greenland. 1974

Musk Oxen, Ovibos moschatus, gallop over snow covered tundra. NWT Canada 1991

Musk Oxen, Ovibos moschatus, gallops over snow covered tundra. NWT Canada. 1991

Musk Oxen, Ovibos moschatus, gallop in a close group over the snow covered tundra. Victoria Island, NWT, Canada. 1991

Long guard hairs on an adult muskox, Ovibos moschatus. Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada.

Month-old muskox calf, Ovibos moschatus, Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada.

Musk oxen with long coats blowing in snow laden wind, Victoria Island. Northwest, Territories, Canada. 1991

Herd of Musk Oxen, Ovibos moschatus gallop over snow covered tundra. NWT. Canada. 1991

Adult bull muskoxen, Ovibos moschatus, in defensive posture. Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada.

Musk Oxen gallop together over snow covered tundra. Victoria Is. NWT. Canada. 1991

Bull Musk Ox stays close to one of his cows during the autumn rut. East Greenland. 2005

Muskoxen in autumn coloured tundra, East Greenland

Cow Musk ox being followed through autumn tundra vegetation by an interested bull, Scoresbysund. East Greenland

Footprints in the sand in Eleonora Bay, Musk oxen, arctic fox and Glaucous Gull. Kejser Franz Joseph Fiord. North-east Greenland National Park. 2005

Cow Muskoxen being followed through autumn tundra vegetation by a bull, Scoresbysund. East Greenland

Adult bull muskox, Ovibos moschatus, crossing a shallow tundra lake, Victoria Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada.

Musk Oxen skull on the beach at theside of a Glacial outwash plain. Eleonora Bay. North-east Greenland National Park. 2005