Mech and Medwid: Yesterday we found
four additional musk oxen carcasses with numerous old and
new wolf tracks; these were located some 10 to 15 miles from
the traditional den. We will try to investigate the area further
in the next few days. Two of the carcasses were eaten by wolves
and the other two had apparently
died of starvation and decomposed and were only recently
found by wolves.
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| Dave Mech examining a dead musk ox for bone fat content; this appears to have been an extremely severe winter, snow remaining in valleys that Dave has not seen in 15 years of research here. |
Yesterday morning we awoke to sunny skies
and relatively warm temperatures and mosquitoes! But in an
hour or so the skies clouded over bringing temperatures down
and also doing in the mosquitoes at least for the moment.
Arctic
foxes continue to visit camp daily and we spotted one
fox pup.
The sun has been out all day today. We've
seen 5 arctic hares in a hike of 5 miles today. Our vantage
points gave us a view of 10 to 20 square miles with no other
sightings of wildlife.
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