The Porcupine caribou (Rangifer tarandus arcticus) is a herd or ecotype of barren-ground caribou, the subspecies of the reindeer or caribou found in Alaska...
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the Porcupine caribou (also known as Grant's caribou) for millennia, have depended on caribou for food, clothing, and shelter. COSEWIC divided caribou ecotypes...
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Reindeer distribution (section Porcupine caribou herd)
(including the Porcupine, Dolphin-Union and other Alaskan and Canadian herds of barren-ground caribou); Osborn's caribou, R. t. oborni; and Peary caribou, R. t...
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oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge threatens the Porcupine caribou herd's calving grounds, while climate change forces polar bears to...
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south-western Greenland. It includes the Porcupine caribou of Yukon and Alaska. The barren-ground caribou is a medium-sized caribou, smaller and lighter-colored than...
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Reindeer (redirect from Arctic caribou)
caribou (R. t. pearyi) lives in the polar desert of the high Arctic Archipelago and Grant's caribou (R. t. granti also called the Porcupine caribou)...
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Gwichʼin (section Caribou as cultural symbol)
ornate beadwork. They also continue to make traditional caribou-skin clothing and porcupine quillwork embroidery, both of which are highly regarded among...
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in particular the calving ground of the Porcupine caribou. In their documentary Being Caribou the Porcupine herd was followed in its yearly migration...
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Unlike the Porcupine caribou and barren-ground caribou, boreal woodland caribou are primarily (but not always) sedentary. The boreal woodland caribou is the...
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grizzly bears, black bear, gray wolf, moose and porcupine caribou. In Alaska, the Western Arctic Caribou herd (490,000 strong in 2004) traverses the Brooks...
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