#0121 · 🦊 mammals

Muskox

🇳🇱 Muskusos ·Ovibos moschatus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Tobias Polzer · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Cameron Eckert · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Cameron Eckert · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Cameron Eckert · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Van Truan · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The muskox ( Ovibos moschatus ), also spelled musk ox and musk-ox (in Inuktitut: ᐅᒥᖕᒪᒃ, umingmak), is an Arctic mammal of the family Bovidae, noted for its thick coat and for the strong odor emitted during the seasonal rut by males, from which its name derives. This musky odor is used to attract females during mating season. Its Inuktitut name "umingmak" translates to "the bearded one". Muskoxen primarily live in Greenland and the Canadian Arctic of the Northwest...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,535iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,535 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann in 1780 (246 years ago).