Muskox of the Northwest Territories (NWT Wildlife Sketches) (GNWT, 1991)
An educational sketch describing the muskox (Ovibos moschatus) of the Northwest Territories, covering its evolutionary history, physical adaptations, behavior, reproduction, food, and management. The document traces the species' decline from overhunting in the 19th-20th centuries and its recovery under Canadian protection since 1917.
- Date
- 1991
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- NWT Renewable Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories, CICLICO
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Banks Island, Ellesmere Island, Melville Island, Victoria Island, Great Bear Lake, Queen Maud Gulf, Thelon Game Sanctuary, Artillary Lake, Perry River, Coppermine, Thelon River, Churchill Manitoba, Arctic islands, Greenland, Siberia, North America, Alaska, Hudson Bay, Bathurst Island, Polar Bear Pass
- Parameters
- muskox abundance, muskox distribution, muskox behavior, muskox reproduction, muskox food and diet, muskox physical description, qiviut (muskox wool), hunting quotas, predation (wolves, grizzly bears), winter survival, coat adaptation
- Pages
- 6
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