How Musk Ox Make It Through Arctic Nights and Never-Ending Days

 Summary:

This is an article about Musk Ox and how they are able to eat enough food to survive the harsh winter life in the Tundra. The article goes on to talk about how the Ox may have circadian clocks that allow them to regulate sleep time to a minimum. In order for them to spend almost all day and all night grazing on the Tundras grass lands before they completely freeze over for the winter. I can relate this to class since in our previous lesson we were talking about different habitats in biomes. Also how animals in these specific biomes adapt in order to survive. This is a prime example of an adaptation adopted thousands of generations ago.


-Colin Schaller  


Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/science/musk-ox-circadian-rhythm.html


Comments

  1. AnonymousNovember 12, 2020 at 5:18 AM

    This is interesting, because I would think that every human would love to have an inner clock to tell them when to wake up. Also, I wonder what happened to make them adapt this way.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 17, 2020 at 4:47 AM

    This article is interesting to me because it is weird to think about how animals know what time it is around the world because they don't have the human brain.

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