All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . o I—I W oo o < i, THE CARIBOU. •*•.. The Caribou is the American variety of reindeer. Unlike its Europeancousin, it has never been tamed and made to serve man. The caribou has been chased by hunters for a week together and then,after all, escapes. A favorite trick of this animal when hard pressed is tomake for a frozen lake. The hunter always gives in, for, in spite of its clumsymovements, nothing can overtake the caribou once it starts across the ice-fields. The caribou is persecuted by the red and white men for its valuable little E
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . o I—I W oo o < i, THE CARIBOU. •*•.. The Caribou is the American variety of reindeer. Unlike its Europeancousin, it has never been tamed and made to serve man. The caribou has been chased by hunters for a week together and then,after all, escapes. A favorite trick of this animal when hard pressed is tomake for a frozen lake. The hunter always gives in, for, in spite of its clumsymovements, nothing can overtake the caribou once it starts across the ice-fields. The caribou is persecuted by the red and white men for its valuable little Esquimaux have a novel method of catching several of these creat-ures at once. They dig a pit and arrange a slab of ice over it, so that whenthe caribou passes that way it will be tilted into the pit below. As the slabis pivoted it returns to its original position, to be ready for the next victim. The horns of the caribou are very heavy. In the spring the males havefierce battles among themselves. Sometimes the horns break off, and then thepoor caribou, being defenceless, is speedily
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