Canada is home to most of the world's native muskox, but in recent years their numbers in the western Canadian Arctic Archipelago

have been dropping. ... Muskox, known to the Inuit as umingmak (“the bearded one”), are genetically unique.

Is there muskox in Canada?

As the ice retreated, muskox spread throughout northern Canada and Greenland before moving westward into Alaska. Today, muskoxen in the Northwest Territories (NWT) are found on Banks, Eglinton, Melville and Victoria Islands and on the mainland from the Arctic coast southwest to Artillery Lake.

Where are muskox found in Canada?

Most of Canada's 85 000 or so muskoxen are found on the arctic islands, especially Banks and Victoria islands. The mainland population of approximately 14 000 is located in the areas north of Great Bear Lake, around Queen Maud Gulf, and in northeastern Keewatin. There is an introduced free-ranging population in Quebec.