Hello, From the Pleistocene
Muskoxen can appear docile, but will not hesitate to charge if threatened. And those charges can be deadly; a Nome resident was attacked and killed by a muskox in 2022.
The Eider Sanction
Distant shotgun reports the evening before indicated local subsistence hunters were stalking eiders, too. I’d already encountered Steller’s eiders and spectacled eiders that morning and found the ducks wary of my approach.