Other than reindeer, they are the lone cold megafauna making due from the Ice Ages. The wooly mammoths, sabertooth tigers and mastadons the muskox used to meander the frozen tundra with were not all that fortunate. They vanished around 10,000 years prior as the earth warmed and the human populace started to blast. The muskox nearly went along with them in the last part of the 1800s, however endeavors to repopulate Alaska, Russia and Scandinavia have given expectation they could endure the current warm period Earth has been encountering for around 12,000 years. There are at present around 170,000 muskoxen on the planet, up from around 135,000 of every 2008.

Populations in some parts of the world are on the rise. For example, the 30 muskoxen that were introduced to Alaska in the 1930s have increased to over 5000 today. But they are declining in Canada and Greenland, where the largest populations once existed. In Banks Island, Canada, their population has dropped from 70,000 in the 1990s to 14,000 in 2014.

Late warm climate has brought downpour, where their used to be just day off, layers of ice over vegetation the muskox used to depend on to get them through winter. As the atmosphere turns out to be more erratic, preservation and re-populace endeavors are a higher priority than any time in recent memory. Here's the result of one such exertion at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. Muskox are moderate reproducers, delivering one calf each a few years. These photographs have a place with nature picture taker Doug Lindstrand can be bought on his site DougLindstrand.com. Watch Musk Ox Battle One of the Harshest Climates on the Planet: