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Video of Porcupine caribou in Becharof National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Ivvavik National Park protects a portion of the calving grounds of the Porcupine herd and restricts the number of people who may visit annually. During the calving in May, caribou are at their most vulnerable. Caribou management calls for preservation of calving grounds.
Every part of the caribou was important. The antlers were used for tools, such as the ulu ("knife") and snow goggles (Inuktitut: ilgaak or iggaak) to prevent snow blindness. The hides were used for kamik (footwear) and clothing, including the anorak and amauti, using caribou sinew to piece the articles together, and worn in many layers. Mittens ...
The populations of caribou are controlled by predators and hunters (who shoot about 22,000 caribou a year). [16] Though in the 1970s there were worries that oil drilling and development in Alaska would harm caribou populations, they seem to have adapted to the presence of humans, and so far there have been few adverse effects.
Reindeer, or caribou, are members of the deer family Cervidae.Deer, elk, moose, and wapiti are also members of this family. The distinction between reindeer and caribou depends on where they live.
The migratory woodland caribou refers to two herds of Rangifer tarandus (known as caribou in North America) that are included in the migratory woodland ecotype of the subspecies Rangifer tarandus caribou or woodland caribou [1] [2] that live in Nunavik, Quebec, and Labrador: the Leaf River caribou herd (LRCH) [3] [4] and the George River caribou herd (GRCH) south of Ungava Bay.
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 ...
The oceans are not just a marine habitat. They are also a workplace, a highway, a prison, a grocery store, a trash can, a cemetery — and much more. Why we need to think about the oceans differently
Major changes for caribou in Canada were: (1) resurrection of previous names for Arctic and Woodland caribou; (2) woodland caribou diverged from other species of Rangifer not by isolation in the last glacial maximum (LGM) but deep in the Pleistocene about 357,000 years ago; (3) Canadian barren-ground caribou and Eurasian tundra reindeer ...