oxen

The polar bears pop up from their winter lairs, the arctic tern soar back from their long journey south and the musk oxen wade north.

In a newly published large study from Greenland musk oxen have been followed for 25 years to see how their feeding habits affect their reproductive success.

Though there were official denials, soldiers were accused of stealing or burning food and farms, slaughtering livestock, including plough oxen, and ransacking and vandalising water systems.

He was in a brand-new cart pulled by two sleek and strong-looking oxen.

The Maronesa oxen pairs, and several others pulling floats through Lamego’s steep cobblestone streets past several churches – some dating back to the Middle Ages – make this festival rare.