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What Sabrina and Junior Hunt initially thought was a large pile of wood began moving, and revealed itself to be an incredibly rare sight in Labrador West on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The couple were boating to their cabin on Shabougamou Lake, around 30 kilometres from Labrador City, when they caught sight of a muskox.<\/p>\n
“It was just, kind of, like big and black. But as we got closer, it was like, ‘That’s moving,” Sabrina told CBC News Monday. <\/p>\n
The muskox can been seen on the video recorded by Junior Hunt walking around on the shoreline as the couple ride on the water. They were able to get a second look at the muskox from around 30 feet away.<\/p>\n
“He’s just, jauntily, just taking his time,” Sabrina said. “You could see, like, his fur was just swaying back and forth like this magical grass skirt. Like, it was just incredible.”<\/p>\n
Muskox are typically native to Arctic tundra, but have been spotted in Labrador on a few occasions over the years. <\/p>\n
The large mammals have been seen in the Nain area<\/a> from herds in northern Quebec \u2014 where the Hunts believe the muskox might have come from \u2014 but a sighting in Labrador West is much more rare.<\/p>\n “When we got a hold of [the Department of Forestry, Agriculture and Lands] afterwards, they were quite surprised at the report that we’ve seen one \u2014 and that we had good pictures and legit video. They were pretty amazed,” said Junior.<\/p>\n CBC has contacted the department for comment but has yet to receive a response.<\/p>\n See the muskox making the rounds in Labrador West in the video above.<\/p>\n Download our<\/strong>\u00a0free CBC News app<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to sign up for push alerts for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador. Sign up for our<\/strong>\u00a0daily headlines newsletter here<\/strong><\/a>. Click<\/strong>\u00a0here to visit our landing page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,133,461],"class_list":["post-654456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117152499481273639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}