The Killing of a Bull Muskox by a Single Wolf

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Gray, David R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1970
• Subjects: Animal behaviour; Animal food; Animal mortality; Muskoxen; Predation; Wolves; Bathurst Island; Nunavut; Arctic; Canis lupus; muskox; ovibos moschatus
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66223

Gives a detailed description of a 53-min contest between a male Canis lupus and a 5-6 yr old bull Ovibos moschatus wardi on Bathurst Island, 28 May 1968. The wolf's maneuvers succeeded in exhausting the muskox. The wolf returned to feed on the carcass for four days succeeding the kill, at least...