Musk Ox Traditional Cache

This bison tube cache is in the Assiniboine Park Zoo. There is an entrance fee. Placing trackables is not recommended in this high muggle area. Summer hours: Open daily from 9:00 a.m. and gates close at 4:30 p.m. Winter hours: Open daily from 9:00 a.m. and gates close at 3:30 p.m. Please treat our animals and plants with respect. Do not approach or feed animals, pick or damage plants, knock on glass, or throw coins in ponds. Please stay on pathways, and respect safety fences.

Muskox have curved horns. The muskox and the caribou are the only two hoofed mammals of the Arctic that survived the end of the Pleistocene era 10,000 years ago. In the 1950s, the Banks Island muskox population fell to only 1,000 animals. They now number over 100,000. Muskox are one of the most powerful land animals in the world.  Muskox eats grasses, roots, reeds, sedges and other plants. They are herbivores. They usually have one baby. The muskox lives in northern Canada, Greenland and Alaska. The adult musk ox usually weighs a minimum of 180 kg. (400 lbs.) Predators of the muskox are wolves and sometimes polar bears. Muskox have fur like sheep wool. People that live in the north have many wool scarves made of muskox.  

Sources:

http://www.hww.ca/en/species/mammals/muskox.html

http://www.nunavutmuskox.ca/interesting_muskox_facts.html

By Andrew, Jenna, Kelsey, Peyton, & Riley of Beaverlodge School