TASS/. The number of musk oxen, which in an experiment had been brought to the Zavyalov Island in the Sea of Okhotsk, continues to grow and now is more than 30 animals, the experiment's author ...

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TASS/. The population of musk oxen, which first were brought to Yakutia's Arctic districts in 1996, reached 6,500 animals, the region's Ministry of Ecology, Nature Management and Forestry told TASS.

Even their hunting tools came from the animals they killed -- fashioning bows from musk-ox ribs and knives from caribou antlers. In summer, the men danced under the pale night sky, banging a ...