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Spirit Guide of the Day is Musk Ox! This means that no matter how harsh the emotional or physical climate, you will endure. Discover your primal strength for this will continue to rise in order to protect you. Now is a time to provide extra guidance and protective in particular to children around you or in your family group. Use courage and persistence to face any challenges head-on, but be willing to look to your family or friends for support, protection, and comfort. People connected with Musk Ox find strength in numbers, enjoying being surrounded by friends and family. These individuals contain a primal connection with the ancient earth, being very protective of children, and never backing down from confrontation. These individuals can often be shorter, stockier folk with strong legs.
Musk Ox, Ovibos Moschatus, are herd mammals that can stand as tall as 5 ft and weigh an incredible 500-800 lbs. These herbivores live in the Arctic and search this frozen land for roots, moss, and lichens to eat. In the winter, they use their strong hooves to dig through the thick snow in order to find food while in the summer, they enjoy the blooming flowers and grasses to eat, often staying near water. Musk Ox have an incredible layering of fur developed specifically for the cold Arctic climate, consisting of a long outer coat called Guard Hairs with a shorter undercoat for natural insulation which falls out during the end of winter. Infants are ready to keep up with the herd within only a few hours of birth, aiding in the tough life of this landscape. Traveling in herds led often by a single female, they can average around two or three dozen in a group. When threatened by predators, they defend themselves by circling together with their horns outwards while keeping the younger herd members on the inside of this impressive defensive huddle. Two different subspecies of Musk ox exist, the Greenland Musk Ox also known as the White-Faced Musk Ox which are found in Greenland and the Canadian high Arctic and the Barren Ground Musk Ox which is found more on the Canadian mainland. These bovines are related more closely to sheep and goats than to oxen with the closest relative of the Musk Ox being the Takin, a goat-antelope found in the Eastern Himalayas.
Musk Ox, Ovibos Moschatus, are herd mammals that can stand as tall as 5 ft and weigh an incredible 500-800 lbs. These herbivores live in the Arctic and search this frozen land for roots, moss, and lichens to eat. In the winter, they use their strong hooves to dig through the thick snow in order to find food while in the summer, they enjoy the blooming flowers and grasses to eat, often staying near water. Musk Ox have an incredible layering of fur developed specifically for the cold Arctic climate, consisting of a long outer coat called Guard Hairs with a shorter undercoat for natural insulation which falls out during the end of winter. Infants are ready to keep up with the herd within only a few hours of birth, aiding in the tough life of this landscape. Traveling in herds led often by a single female, they can average around two or three dozen in a group. When threatened by predators, they defend themselves by circling together with their horns outwards while keeping the younger herd members on the inside of this impressive defensive huddle. Two different subspecies of Musk ox exist, the Greenland Musk Ox also known as the White-Faced Musk Ox which are found in Greenland and the Canadian high Arctic and the Barren Ground Musk Ox which is found more on the Canadian mainland. These bovines are related more closely to sheep and goats than to oxen with the closest relative of the Musk Ox being the Takin, a goat-antelope found in the Eastern Himalayas.
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Species Bovine (Other)
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