TY - JOUR AU - Flood, Peter F. AU - Tedesco, Susan C. PY - 1997/04/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Relationship between Conception Date and Latitude in Muskoxen JF - Rangifer JA - Ran VL - 17 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.7557/2.17.1.382 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/382 SP - 25-30 AB - It has been suggested that muskoxen calve earlier with increasing latitude but the available data do not seem to have been thoroughly analyzed. Therefore, estimated conception dates (K=657) from a wide range of latitudes were compared. The results indicate that conceptions occur about a month earlier in the arctic than at temperate latitudes. This conclusion is consistent with reported observations of mating behaviour and calving season. ER -