Beware of charging muskox, say travellers on Sahtu winter road
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When a muskox charged his truck on the Sahtu winter road Tuesday, Wing Sham's first thought was to make sure it didn't damage the radiator.
"It got like within like 20, 25 feet in front of me and then, like, it was just coming full bore straight towards the middle of the truck," Sham told Northwind host Wanda Mcleod.
Sham cranked his wheel to one side and the muskox's horns left a scratch on his corner bumper.
It happened as Sham was driving north on the winter road toward Fort Good Hope, N.W.T.
Sham, who lives in Calgary but works in Norman Wells on a three-month on, three-month off rotation, pulled over to take pictures, and stopped by some other trucks.
That's when the muskox set its sights on his bumper.
Sham thinks the muskox was acting aggressively because it was trapped by high snow banks on either side of the highway.
In another video, posted Tuesday on the Sahtu Winter Road Facebook site, a muskox is seen ramming a different vehicle. It then steps back a few feet and shakes its head slightly. CBC reached out to the person who posted that video, who declined comment.
April Manuel saw a muskox in the same area at 9 p.m. that night.
Manuel says they first saw tracks on their way into Norman Wells, but thought it was a moose.
"But then on the way back… we spotted that muskox and we thought 'Wow!'... it became clear it was a muskox by itself," Manuel said.
Manuel says they drove behind the muskox for about half an hour.
"The guy ahead of us told us that he's trying to shoot at it, to scare it away. Otherwise it's going to charge at our vehicle," she said.
"It looked back at us, tried to attempt to run over the snow bank, but the part he was trying to run on was too high."
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