To figure out how and why caribou migrate during the winter, Eliezer Gurarie, a professor at the State University of New York, and fellow researchers teamed up with the National Park Service ...

With heavily muscled bodies, skinny legs, and strong hooves that balloon to the size of dinner plates come winter, mountain caribou — the "mountain ecotype" of the woodland caribou — are well adapted ...

Decades of caribou research show the proposed road would disrupt migration, fragment habitat and harm food security in rural ...

Not us. After the long, dark, cold winter, we welcomed the light—every bit of it. Plus, I wanted to look out the windows to watch caribou streaming by. Spring was go-time. Winter was a time of rest.

LIFE CYCLE: Caribou generally live between eight and 15 years. FEEDING: Although caribou eat a wide variety of foods, winter foraging is limited almost exclusively to ground and arboreal lichens.

Caribou hoofs are strung onto a caribou skin cord and used as rattles. Caribou hides are made into soft, warm clothing. Clothing used in summer has the hair removed. Winter clothing is made with the ...