Musk ox attacks camera man, Greenland

Author and story: Anders Wiulff

Wiulff: "I was shooting a documentary in Greenland, in the south of the country and I came across this lonely bull. I was shooting some footage of it - walking parallel to its path. Nut suddenly it changed course and started to grass towards me. It seemed very harmless, but at one point I thought that it was pretty close to me, so I decided that I would make a wide shoot and leave the camera, so I would get a perfect picture while the musk ox just walked by the camera. As I zoomed out the ox suddenly attacked and a stayed low behind the camera until it was very close - then I jumped up and shouted very loud (as you can hear). It must have took it by surprise, because it stopped two meters from me, so I grabbed the camera and walked away, while it looked at me."

 

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