. American animals [microform] : a popular guide to the mammals of North America, north of Mexico, with intimate biographies of the more familiar species. Mammals; Animals; Mammifères; Animaux. Woodland Cariboa band just above the hoofs white, muzzle and face dark except the front of the upper lips. Grayer in winter with head and neck nearly white. Antlers with one (rarely both) of the brow tines flattened and palmate standing out vertically in front of the face, above this is another branched tine more or less palmate and the summit of the antler is again palmately expanded. The exact pattern
. American animals [microform] : a popular guide to the mammals of North America, north of Mexico, with intimate biographies of the more familiar species. Mammals; Animals; Mammifères; Animaux. Woodland Cariboa band just above the hoofs white, muzzle and face dark except the front of the upper lips. Grayer in winter with head and neck nearly white. Antlers with one (rarely both) of the brow tines flattened and palmate standing out vertically in front of the face, above this is another branched tine more or less palmate and the summit of the antler is again palmately expanded. The exact pattern and extent of the palmation is exceedmgly variable. Range. Wooded parts of British America, northern Maine and Montana. The caribou's hair in summer is brown to match the dun coloured barrens and marshes. In the fall it grows longer and thicker, the new growth being very much lighter so that in mid- winter and early spring the general effect is smoky white—the colour of a snowstorm in the woods, and the moss-hung, snow- flecked spruce trees among which the caribou feed and seek pro- tection during the cold weather. Their rough antlers looking like dead, weather-beaten branches also help them in their everlasting game of hide and seek. It is evident to the most unscientific that the woodland caribou is only a branch of the great reindeer family, which has either wandered south into the woods of Canada and the northern United States, or else lingered behind when the wide extended ice sheet of the glacial period withdrew again to the Arctic regions thousands of years ago, at the time the little alpine plants, still found on Mt. Washington, got left behind by their kindred. In whichever case they certainly appear to have found the conditions favourable and have increased in size accordingly. But the woodland caribou still feels at times the old inherited desire for wide open stretches of treeless country, particulariy in summer, when they wander out over the extensive barrens a
Size: 1044px × 2394px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectanimals, bookyear1902
