For the first time satellites follow musk oxen in Northeast Greenland

For the first time satellites follow musk oxen in Northeast Greenland

A muscular musk ox with sharply pointed horns, weighing between 200 and 300 kilos, is not to joke with. Six fully grown men know what they have to do when they stand face-to-face with the wandering Arctic woolen blanket with the large skull.

Researchers from Aarhus University, together with a team from Copenhagen Zoo, travelled to Zackenberg Research Station in Northeast Greenland in order to fit satellite transmitters on a number of musk oxen.

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