{"id":57906,"date":"2024-11-28T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/?p=57906"},"modified":"2025-01-23T13:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T13:22:51","slug":"deutsch-moschusochse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/info\/deutsch-moschusochse\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Ox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The musk ox, like the reindeer, is a relic of the Ice Age. In the final phase of the Ice Age, the musk ox was very common on the mammoth steppe. It is a relatively small animal with a shoulder height between that of a modern sheep (<em>Ovis<\/em>) and a cow (<em>Bos<\/em>), which is why its genus is named <em>Ovibos<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the musk ox is still found in northern Scandinavia, the high Arctic regions of Siberia, and northern North America. At the end of the Ice Age, they went extinct in Europe and Asia but survived in northern North America. It was only in the last century that these Ice Age animals were reintroduced by humans to Scandinavia and Arctic Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>Fossils of musk oxen are highly distinctive and are frequently retrieved from the North Sea floor. The most characteristic feature is the skull of the musk ox, with its extremely heavy and short, flattened horn bases. In male animals, the horn bases almost touch each other, as can be clearly seen in this skull of <em>Ovibos moschatus<\/em> found in the permafrost of Siberia. In female animals, there is a significant gap between the horn bases.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The musk ox, like the reindeer, is a relic of the Ice Age. In the final phase of the Ice Age, the musk ox was very common on the mammoth steppe. It is a relatively small animal with a shoulder height between that of a modern sheep (Ovis) and a cow (Bos), which is why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":58126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}