The University of Alaska Fairbanks has teamed up withExplore.org , an organization with a connection of live nature Cam , to launch a webcam that sacrifice you a resilient look at the university ’s musk oxen , Rangifer tarandus , and bison .
The webcam prove a pasture at the university ’s Robert G. White Large Animal Research Station in Fairbanks . The musk oxen at the University of Alaska are mostly used for education and inquiry , fit in to a universityrelease .
In the foreground of the photographic camera ’s position is a musk wild ox eatage , and reindeer can be see in the background . The youngest musk ox at the university is 7 months old , and the oldest is 18 years old . The university hosts 41 Greenland caribou and 11wood bison(Bison bison athabascae ) , the larger of the two bison mintage that experience in North America ( plain stitch bison are Bison bison bison ) .
Merida, a 3-year-old female musk ox seen in the livestream.Photo:UAF
As of November 3 , it ’s snowing in Fairbanks , making a picturesque wintertime wonderland tableau for livestream TV audience . That ’s no matter for the musk ox , an animal that regularly endures wintertime storm and temperature of well below freezing .
According to the National Parks Service , musk oxen handle the cold thanks to two layers of fur . Their outer bed lie of the foresighted pelt of all North American mammal , and its primer ( or qiviut ) is fine than cashmere and eight times warmer than sheep ’s woolen , though much more durable .
Musk oxen conserve heating and vigour during the wintertime by moving as picayune as possible — a behavior that some humans may find familiar .
The webcam will only engage during daylight 60 minutes , so to learn these furred creatures at night you may have to inflict some in person . It intermittently Pan , showing the viewer different stretches of the pasturage the musk oxen inhabit .
If you do n’t have a squeamish windowpane for birdwatching and call for something gently entertaining , the musk oxen livestream is well worth watching .
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