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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.
The word porcupine comes from the Latin porcus ' pig ' + spina ' spine, quill ', from Old Italian porcospino, ' thorn-pig '. [4] [5] A regional American name for the animal is quill-pig. [6] A baby porcupine is a porcupette. When born, a porcupette's quills are soft hair; they harden within a few days, forming the sharp quills of adults. [7]
Caribou herd ranges. Porcupine caribou's 1,500 miles (2,400 km) annual land migration between their winter range in the boreal forests of Alaska and northwest Canada over the mountains to the coastal plain and their calving grounds on the Beaufort Sea coastal plain, [45] is the longest of any land mammal on earth. In 2019, the herd size was ...
The name 'spine hog' makes sense, although a porcupine has nothing to do with pigs. It's actually a large rodent. Believe it or not, some species of porcupines are really good swimmers!
On July 28, 1975, under the authority of the Endangered Species Act, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service listed the grizzly bear as a threatened species in the lower 48 states. [ 7 ] Over the next several decades, the bears learned to hunt and forage for themselves from non-human food sources, and their population slowly grew. [ 7 ]
Enrichment activities for zoo animals can take a variety of shapes. Some primates. For example, learn how to play video games, or even get cleaning supplies to wash up the windows of their enclosures.
They are wild animals that travel in herds throughout Alaska and Canada. To find enough food, they have to keep moving. Large herds will migrate up to 400 miles between the summer and winter months.
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.