Module 4 • Flora and Fauna: Case Study
Student Page 4-7.2c
Mystery Fact Cards
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Fact #1 When grazing, muskoxen sometimes eat small land snails by accident.
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Fact #2 The autopsies revealed that the dead muskoxen had pneumonia-causing bacteria
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Fact #3 Autopsies revealed dead muskoxen were founds to have parasites called lungworms.
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Fact #4 muskoxen are spooked by the presence of humans. They get nervous.
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Fact #5 Heavy snows make travel difficult for muskoxen. Herds begin to congregate on the few pieces of
bare ground (or shallow snow accumulation areas) available.
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Fact #6 The lungworm larvae can move across the placenta from the pregnant female into its fetus.
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