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 males also lose most of its reserved weight during the mating season as they stop eating. Both animals are seasonal migrators, and some caribou are known to be the longest migrating ...

University of Alberta research offers new guidance that can help recover habitat for woodland caribou in forests across the ...

“Then they would sit around for a couple of weeks eating caribou.” In addition to identifying more than 60 hunting sites on the now-underwater ridge, the team has also recovered small stone ...

Caribou depend on tundra plants like lichen and ... creating a thick layer of ice that encased the tundra plants that the animals eat. A large die-off followed, according to the Alaska Department ...

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 ...