muskox

Slide:

Slide is an orphaned bull from the Yukon Territory. Slide was cared for as a calf at a game refuge in Canada and brought to AWCC in the winter of 2000. Record snowfalls and avalanches closing the Seward Highway delayed Slide’s

arrival to AWCC but earned him his name. Mike Miller, AWCC’s Executive Director watched over the musk ox in a horse trailer in Anchorage for over 4 days while they waited for the highway to re-open.

Sidney:

Sidney is a female musk ox previously used for research at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Still part of dietary and breeding studies she will live out her life at AWCC.

Muskox are members of the goat family. They’re an arctic survivor with a thick coat consisting of long (up to 36 inches) guard hairs covering a dense winter coat of harvestable warm fur called Qiviut. Qiviut is considered to be one of the warmest materials in the world.