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This means 24 times the weight of all the lions, whales, and musk-ox combined are creatures who spend their lives in pens, fields, factories, and other manufactured spaces.

From Slate • Dec. 24, 2022

Populated by musk-ox, wild horses and bison, it's like Jurassic Park but with a friendlier crowd.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2021

Adventurers are driven to figure out ever new, ever more outlandish forms of excitement, from using jet engines to shoot up, not down, the wicked rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the moment, Teal plans to release a set of dogs to scatter the musk-ox herd.

From Time Magazine Archive

Part of it was the flesh of the musk-ox, which was fat and juicy, but had a high musky flavour.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John