HIM doing one of his hunting segments and then he said something about the "dangerous" Musk Ox and that they killed more people in the North then the bears.

Never having any personal contact with the big furries I have no experience with them ...but are they really more dangerous then bears??? THAT statement came as a real shock.

looking for input from you folks in the Last Frontier.

I must hunt a different breed of Musk Ox than he does. I have never heard of any Musk Ox killing anyone.

I find that statement pretty strange also. I suppose anything can be dangerous to a point. Muskox are not known for being particularly agressive.

Musk Ox are taken commercially for meat in Canada, something like 10,000 a year if I recall correctly. Perhaps some of the commercial meat hunters get careless.
My experience was cetainly different.
I did have a friend who killed one of two bulls that were hanging out together. The live bull wouldn't leave the fallen one. My buddy engaged in a pushing match using the meat hauling sled that lasted about 45 minutes before he was able to get the bull to leave. In the process the bull tore the heck out of the sled. Not sure if that makes them dangerous or just stubborn.

I don't think muskoxen will ever be regarded as the Cape Buffalo of the North, but I've heard that they won't hesitate to charge hunters. Their instinct to encircle themselves as protection from predators clearly indicates that fleeing isn't their only means of defense.

I've never heard of them killing anyone.

I watched a bull at the Muskox Farm in Palmer one day that was sent up here from the San Diego Zoo as he roared (and I do indeed mean "roared"), huffed, puffed, ran around in circles, etc. in a solitary pen while a small herd stared at him from another pen. When I asked what his problem was, a farm employee told us that he had been given to the farm by the zoo because they just couldn't handle him any longer, and the farm wasn't having much better luck. Once he got up here he seemed intent on getting into the cows and ruling the roost, so he had to be segregated.

Apparently, they can be quite a handful.