Muskoxen in Canada
Subtitle: a biological and taxonomic review
By: by J.S. Tener.
Series: [Canada. Wildlife Service. Monograph series]; 2.; Monograph series (Canadian Wildlife Service) ;; no. 2.
Publisher: Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources, Canadian Wildlife  Service
Published: 1965
Place of publication: [Ottawa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Muskox -- Canada.
Description: Reports findings of Canadian Wildlife Service studies of muskoxen over 1951-61, with integration of results of other investigators who have worked in Canada and Greenland. Chapters cover the following topics: geographic distribution in the Arctic mainland and islands; the muskox environment, including climate, range topography, and soil characteristics; range vegetation, incorporating analyses of vegetation in the Fosheim Peninsula, Thelon Game Sanctuary, and Lake Hazen areas.

Muskox food and feeding behaviour; muskox biology, including physical and physiological characteristics, life history, herd characteristics, social organization and behaviour, parasites and diseases, and mortality factors; adaptations to the Arctic environment; population regulation factors; economic importance of the species; history of the genus Ovibos, and variation in muskox subspecies. The appendix includes a paper considering the theoretical aspects of the intrinsic rate of natural increase of muskoxen.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 156-166.
A revision of the author's thesis, University of British Columbia.