Caribou, also known as reindeer, are large mammals. You can find them living in areas of Europe, Asia, North America, and Greenland. The most common misconception is that caribou and reindeer are ...

Caribou is also the only species in the deer family where both male and female grow antlers, ... Caribou vs Elk: Sounds. Most animals have some ways to communicate with one another.

Caribou are highly migratory animals that stay together in herds while they move almost constantly. Fast Facts Common name: Caribou Scientific name: Rangifer tarandus Type: Mammal Diet: Herbivore ...

Going the distance. Some caribou in Alaska and Canada have the longest annual migration route of any land animal, in part because these herds have lots of room to roam, a study finds.

No caribou were pushed into the water or trampled against the bushes. It was as though a safety bubble hovered around each animal, with an unspoken, absolutist rule shared among the herd: Do not ...

In the lead-up to Canada Day, we want you to vote on Canada's true national symbols. Today, Joseph Boyden makes his case ...

Caribou are a vital part of aboriginal culture, traditionally used for food, clothing, and tools. They’ve been on the Canadian quarter since 1936.

Humans are not the only creatures bothered by mosquitoes and flies. They harass caribou so much that earlier this month, about 300,000 of the animals huddled closely together in Northwest Alaska ...

State game managers reduced bag limits for subsistence and nonresident hunters this week to preserve the declining Western Arctic Caribou Herd. The Alaska Board of Game concluded its meeting in ...

In 2009, George said the South Selkirk caribou herd had 46 animals and was “climbing at a pretty good rate every year.” But wolves started to filter onto the landscape about that time, George ...

No, a caribou did not travel thousands of miles south to find his fateful death being hit by a car in Weld County on Tuesday morning. And, no, Santa didn’t misplace one from his herd in Colorado.The ...

To preserve the declining Western Arctic Caribou Herd, the Federal Subsistence Board during the Wildlife Regulatory Meeting this week reduced the hunting of the herd from five animals a day to 15 ...