Aulavik: Kingdom of the Muskox
Located on Banks Island in the NWT, Aulavik National Park is home to the highest concentration of muskoxen in the world. The park, whose name means 'place where people travel' in Inuvialuktun, protects these shaggy ice-age survivors and the pristine Thomsen River, one of North America's most northerly navigable rivers. #Canada #Aulavik #NWT #Muskoxen π¨π¦
Aulavik: Kingdom of the Muskox
Located on Banks Island in the NWT, Aulavik National Park is home to the highest concentration of muskoxen in the world. The park, whose name means 'place where people travel' in Inuvialuktun, protects these shaggy ice-age survivors and the pristine Thomsen River, one of North America's most northerly navigable rivers. #Canada #Aulavik #NWT #Muskoxen π¨π¦
Aulavik: Kingdom of the Muskox
Located on Banks Island in the NWT, Aulavik National Park is home to the highest concentration of muskoxen in the world. The park, whose name means 'place where people travel' in Inuvialuktun, protects these shaggy ice-age survivors and the pristine Thomsen River, one of North America's most northerly navigable rivers. #Canada #Aulavik #NWT #Muskoxen π¨π¦
2 points about this video of a muskox opening a giant pumpkin:
1) it's ridiculously cute
2) I can never get over the arrogance of "discovery!: other animals use tools too!"-type statements. This muskox uses a boulder to assist in opening the pumpkin. That's tool use. Animals use tools all the time. They're not dumb.
Aulavik: Kingdom of the Muskox
Located on Banks Island in the NWT, Aulavik National Park is home to the highest concentration of muskoxen in the world. The park, whose name means 'place where people travel' in Inuvialuktun, protects these shaggy ice-age survivors and the pristine Thomsen River, one of North America's most northerly navigable rivers. #Canada #Aulavik #NWT #Muskoxen π¨π¦
During his first day in office, #Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder opening the #Arctic National Wildlife Refuge β home to migrating #caribou, #PolarBears, #MuskOxen, millions of #birds & other #wildlife β to #drilling. But a lease sale there held in January flopped, ending without a single bidder.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Climate #FossilFuels #PublicLands #LandConservation #EnvironmentalLaw #law
The #tundra is a cold, dry land
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Where is the tundra region?
Tundra shirts the northern comes of daya are short and days bring a briel,
#Muskoxen live in the tundra, one of the world's harshest environments. Trees don't grow here their roots can't penetrate the thick layer of frozen soil called permafrost
The #tundra is a cold, dry land
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Where is the tundra region?
Tundra shirts the northern comes of daya are short and days bring a briel,
#Muskoxen live in the tundra, one of the world's harshest environments. Trees don't grow here their roots can't penetrate the thick layer of frozen soil called permafrost
Herbivore Diversity Helps Maintain #Arctic Tundra Diversity
https://eos.org/articles/herbivore-diversity-helps-maintain-arctic-tundra-diversity #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
"#tundra #biodiversity decreased across all of their sites over time. That wasnβt entirely a surprise given that the area has warmed by nearly 1Β°C on average during the 15-year study period... the losses at their site werenβt uniform, however: the presence of large #herbivores like #MuskOxen and #caribou seemed to forestall biodiversity losses."
Sharing bits of Canada 'ehπ¨π¦
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