Taimyr musk oxen to be sent to Yakutia to recreate ecosystem
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Taimyr musk oxen to be sent to Yakutia to recreate ecosystem

July 23, 2024

The experiment in the Pleistocene Park has been carried out for 20 years.

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On the island at the exit from the Hatanga bay in Taimyr, musk oxen will be captured to be sent to the Pleistocene Park in northeastern Yakutia.

An experiment is being conducted in the reserve to recreate the ecosystem of mammoth tundra steppes – they dominated the Northern Hemisphere during the last glaciation. With the end of the Ice Age, the mammoth steppes disappeared. TASS reports this. According to scientists, they degraded due to the extinction of large herbivores that ate vegetation and fertilized the soil with organic matter.

The Pleistocene Park, which is located 150 kilometers south of the Arctic ocean coast, is now home to nine species of large herbivores – reindeer, Yakut horse, elk, steppe bison, ure, musk ox, yak, Kalmyk cow and sheep. They are expected to restore a highly productive ecosystem similar to the mammoth steppe.

At the same time, park workers constantly conduct experiments on the adaptation of new species. This year, a second batch of 15 camels was brought to the park, their number increased to 22.

Earlier, the This Is Taimyr reported that the Taimyr female musk ox Alana celebrated her birthday at the Krasnoyarsk zoo and that a massive study of the musk ox population would be conducted in Taimyr.

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Text: Angelika Stepanova, Photo: Denis Kozhevnikov

July 23, 2024

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