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The Porcupine caribou is a herd or ecotype of the mainland barren-ground caribou (Rangifer arcticus arcticus, syn. R. tarandus groenlandicus [1]), the subspecies of the reindeer or caribou found in Alaska, United States, and Yukon and the Northwest Territories, Canada.
The Porcupine caribou herd, whose range includes the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska, gets its name from its calving grounds around the Porcupine River. Possible (but disputed) evidence of the oldest known human habitation in North America comes from a cave on one of the Porcupine's tributaries, the Bluefish River.
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Both caribou and reindeer have the same scientific name, Rangifer tarandus, and are of the same species. The key thing that differentiates reindeer from caribou is the fact that a reindeer is ...
Ivvavik National Park (/ ˈ iː v ə v ɪ k / EE-və-vik) [2] is a national park of Canada located in the Yukon.Initially named "Northern Yukon National Park," the park was renamed Ivvavik in 1992 for the Inuvialuktun word meaning "nursery" or "birthplace," [3] in reference to the importance of the area as a calving ground for Porcupine caribou.
A large number of apparently human modified animal bones have been discovered in the Old Crow area, notably at Bluefish Caves, about 380 km (240 mi) south, and the Old Crow Flats, located about 14 km (8.7 mi) south, that have been dated to 25,000–40,000 years ago by carbon dating, several thousand years earlier than generally accepted human habitation of North America.
The past can be quite fascinating.Those of us living in the present find it really interesting what life was like 50, 100, or even a 1,000 years ago. Luckily, we can go almost 200 years to the ...
A porcupine gave birth in front of “excited visitors” at London Zoo. Keepers released the first images on Thursday of the baby cape porcupine – known as a porcupette – who was born to ...