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Kingdom   Animal
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Class   Mammal
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Species   Muskox
 
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Date Updated   Sun Jan 4 12:40:54 2015
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Muskox Facts & Trivia for kids
- At the neck, chest, and rear, a muskox's hair can be up to 3 feet long.
- Muskox live in the Arctic.
- Muskox stay in herds with other muskox and don't like to share their territory with any other animals.
- Muskox got their name from the strong odor given off by males. This musky odor is used to attract females during mating season.
- The muskox, or its relative, is thought to have migrated to North America between 200,000 and 90,000 years ago; the same time the woolly mammoth lived.
- Muskoxen are more closely related to sheep and goats than to oxen.
- Both male and female muskoxen have long curved horns.
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