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musk ox

The musk ox is an animal that inhabits the far north of the American continent. It may have the shape of a bull if it were not for its small size. It is closer to the goat and sheep species. Due to the coldness of those regions, nature has covered him with thick hair, which is brown in color, short and wavy on the neck and back, and long on the side to the point that it almost wipes the ground. It has a short tail and short ears, all of which are hidden in its thick fur.

It has horns, and the female also has horns, which are strong horns that emerge from fixed roots on the forehead.

The work of these horns is great, as they push these cubs away from their young, as they can hardly feel the wolves coming towards them, sneaking around in a group, until they surround their young in a circle, placing the young in the middle of it. Both males and females move with their horns, warning every aggressor, outside that circular fortress, thus avoiding aggression.

But nature, and its work in shaping creation over thousands of years, did not imagine that a time would come when man would invent firearms, and that this tactical action made by these bulls, in terms of gathering in a circle, is the most effective system required by these firearms to eliminate them. The whole herd. This is how these bulls are destroyed by the Eskimo tribes that live in those areas.

The herd of these bulls is twenty or more. It is an herbivore that it frequents wherever it finds it. It requires moss, lichen, and the like.

The weight of the bull reaches 600 pounds.
In the current famine that is common in the world, especially due to the scarcity of meat and proteins, attention has turned to domesticating these bulls, and experiments have been conducted that indicate the ease of domesticating them.
As for what is hoped for by humanizing it, it is to obtain from it:

1- The meat, and the meat of its young, is good. As for the meat of its elders, it has a musky scent. Musk may be a perfume he likes and a food he dislikes.
2- Its milk is good and plentiful.
3- Her wool.
4 Calves differ, and their gestation period is the same as that of a human: 9 months.

The question that led us to all this remained: How was this bull called the musk ox?

The answer: because of the smell that flows through him, in his blood.

To this day, no one knows where this smell comes from, and he has no known glands that secrete musk from his blood.
And musk is not collected from it.