Thanks, did not know. Read up more on it.
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While the two pandas gifted to the U.S. survived for over twenty years until the 1990s, sadly, neither musk ox fared very well in China. The director of the U.S. National Zoo, Theodore Reid, recounted that “Milton had a runny nose, cough, and hair loss at the Beijing Zoo. He might be a little depressed. Matilda is said to be in poor condition.” The Arctic animals also suffered from poor skin conditions.
When George Bush was director of the U.S. liaison office to the People’s Republic of China from 1974-1975, he was not permitted to visit the zoo. He pondered that this might have been because as American orthnithologist Dillon Ripley noted after his own visit, there was only one musk ox left rather than two.
As it turns out, Milton died after swallowing a sharp object in 1975, and Matilda died in 1980.
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Two more musk oxen arrived in China in 1988 thanks to the efforts of a dedicated Alaskan woman, but they, too, later died.
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Basically, musk oxen don't do well in China.