The ancestors of caribou (or reindeer as they are known in Eurasia) moved out of South America about 5 million years ago. Caribou appear to have speciated in Beringia, which is the name for the far northwest part of North America and the far northeast of Russia, next to the Bering Sea. This occurred during the Pleistocene epoch, or the ...
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Some people who read Caribou Corner 1 wanted to know what is going on with the remaining Lake Superior caribou. So we are going to look at that now and come back to the diversity of caribou later. In the 1800s, caribou were on the mainland all around Lake Superior and on all the offshore islands. But now there ...
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Caribou are members of the deer family (Cervidae – from the Latin word for stag) along with moose, elk, and white-tailed deer of course. There are also another 22 species native to North and South America, Europe and Asia. The deer family are hoofed mammals with a rumen to help digest their vegetarian diet. The rumen is the first of ...
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