Reindeer (redirect from Arctic caribou)
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous...
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tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum). Notable animals include reindeer (caribou), musk ox, Arctic hare, Arctic fox, snowy owl, ptarmigan, northern red-backed...
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Arctic and Antarctic. Animals such as polar bears, walruses, orcas, caribou, musk oxen, Kodiak bears, arctic terns, penguins, seals, and humpback whales...
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home to at least fourteen mammal species including the Peary caribou, barren-ground caribou, and polar bears. At one time over 68,000 muskoxen lived on...
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some mining on the Seward Peninsula and some possible over-hunting of caribou, but these are large blocks of largely unspoilt habitat. Protected areas...
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Inuit clothing (section Caribou and seal)
inner footwear, and outer boots. The most common sources of hide were caribou, seals, and seabirds, although other animals were used when available....
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abundant, including that of large mammals such as brown bears, moose, caribou, musk oxen, and (offshore) polar bears and numerous species of whales and...
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Reindeer hunting in Greenland (redirect from Caribou hunting in Greenland)
Greenlandic Inuit and sports hunters, both residents and tourists. Reindeer (caribou) are an important source of meat, and harvesting them has always played...
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Moschidae (category Musk deer)
was believed that the musk deer (family Moschidae) were an adjacent, sister-group to the 'true' deer of the family Cervidae (caribou, moose, elk, and roughly...
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and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose). Male deer of almost all species...
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pronghorns evolved in an open environment while the cervids, including the caribou, evolved in a woodland habitat. The type of gallop in Pecorian species...
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polar bear, and Arctic hare. In former times there were also caribou, but the last live caribou reported from Northern Greenland were seen in Hall Land in...
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of land mammals on earth. The pair encounter Arctic wolves, the caribou migration, musk ox and- most importantly- make the first ever recording of a rare...
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sulfur springs. Other animals including forms of bison, caribou, deer, elk, horse, mastodon, musk ox, peccary, ground sloths, wolves, black bears, stag...
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keystone herbivores are the musk ox and the caribou. They have thick shaggy coats that they shed during the warmer months. Caribou use their nimble legs to...
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Shooting a musk ox provides four times as much meat as a reindeer, but "Greenlanders would much rather have caribou or reindeer meat than musk or ox meat...
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Fish and Wildlife Service introduced reindeer (the smaller Eurasian caribou) and musk oxen onto the island in the 1930s and 1940s. Large herds of these...
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Thelon. 300,000 migrating Barren-ground Caribou cross the river every fall and spring. Inuit – including Caribou Inuit and Copper Inuit – have long occupied...
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who maintain a predominantly traditional diet, fishing and hunting musk ox and caribou. Nelson Island was named after Edward William Nelson, a Smithsonian...
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young man growing up near the northern Arctic Circle, Ullulaq would hunt caribou, muskox, seals, and polar bears. He and his family lived at outpost camps...
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available material for the belly of the bow. Driftwood, antler from caribou, or musk ox horn, have also been used. First, the stave is shaped by stone or...
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ecosystem with other herbivorous megafauna, such as the caribou (Rangifer tarandus), the woodland musk-ox (Ovibos moschatus), and the giant beaver (Castoroides...
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and pigs, which are raised in modest numbers in the south. Barren-ground caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus rensdyr / ren Muskox Ovibos moschatus moskusokse...
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musk oxen, and bison. Roosevelt elk, Yukon moose and mountain goats are available to hunt, as well as Dall sheep, stone sheep, barren-ground caribou,...
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They are generally found only on males, with the exception of reindeer/caribou. Antlers are shed and regrown each year and function primarily as objects...
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cut skins for clothing and footwear. Women made most clothing of caribou (wild caribou Rangifer tarandus granti and domestic reindeer Rangifer tarandus...
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with caribou populations. Caribou herds declined considerably in the 1940s, and O. dalli became an important harvest species. Since the 1990s, caribou populations...
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reindeer were crossed with caribou from Denali Park. The resulting animals were larger and less tame than other reindeer. 34 musk ox from Greenland were transferred...
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