The oral anatomy of Arctic ruminants: coping with seasonal changes

• Published in: Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: Mathiesen, S. D., Sørmo, W., Haga, Ø. E., Norberg, H. J., Utsi, T. H. A., Tyler, N. J. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2000
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; The Muzzle; ovibos moschatus; Rangifer tarandus; svalbard reindeer; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2000.tb00597.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-7998.2000.tb00597.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2000.tb00597.x; https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2000.tb00597.x

Abstract We studied the feeding apparatus of three species of northern ruminants representative of three feeding types: muskoxen Ovibos moschatus , Norwegian reindeer Rangifer tarandus tarandus and high Arctic Svalbard reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyhrynchus and Siberian musk deer Moschus moschifer...