A possible occurrence of twinning in wild muskoxen, West Greenland

Two cows, both at least four years of age, were observed with what appeared to be two sets of twins, near Ammolortoq Lake, approximately 25 km southeast of Kangerlussuaq in West Greenland. There were few other muskoxen in the atea at the time. The calves in each pair were the same size and one pair...

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Published in:Rangifer
Main Author: Elsner, Wendy
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Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 1994
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description Two cows, both at least four years of age, were observed with what appeared to be two sets of twins, near Ammolortoq Lake, approximately 25 km southeast of Kangerlussuaq in West Greenland. There were few other muskoxen in the atea at the time. The calves in each pair were the same size and one pair was larger than the other.
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spelling ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/1147 2025-01-16T22:07:25+00:00 A possible occurrence of twinning in wild muskoxen, West Greenland Elsner, Wendy 1994-12-01 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1147 https://doi.org/10.7557/2.14.3.1147 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1147/1090 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1147 doi:10.7557/2.14.3.1147 Copyright (c) 2015 Wendy Elsner http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Rangifer; Årg 14 Nr 3 (1994); 133-134 Rangifer; Vol 14 No 3 (1994); 133-134 1890-6729 Ovibos moschatus muskoxen info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1994 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/2.14.3.1147 2021-08-16T14:51:42Z Two cows, both at least four years of age, were observed with what appeared to be two sets of twins, near Ammolortoq Lake, approximately 25 km southeast of Kangerlussuaq in West Greenland. There were few other muskoxen in the atea at the time. The calves in each pair were the same size and one pair was larger than the other. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Kangerlussuaq ovibos moschatus Rangifer University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Greenland Kangerlussuaq ENVELOPE(-55.633,-55.633,72.633,72.633) Rangifer 14 3 133
spellingShingle Ovibos moschatus
muskoxen
Elsner, Wendy
A possible occurrence of twinning in wild muskoxen, West Greenland
title A possible occurrence of twinning in wild muskoxen, West Greenland
title_full A possible occurrence of twinning in wild muskoxen, West Greenland
title_fullStr A possible occurrence of twinning in wild muskoxen, West Greenland
title_full_unstemmed A possible occurrence of twinning in wild muskoxen, West Greenland
title_short A possible occurrence of twinning in wild muskoxen, West Greenland
title_sort possible occurrence of twinning in wild muskoxen, west greenland
topic Ovibos moschatus
muskoxen
topic_facet Ovibos moschatus
muskoxen
url https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1147
https://doi.org/10.7557/2.14.3.1147