THE LIFE OF MAMMALS 
In the forested regions of Canada, from Newfoundland and 
Labrador to British Columbia and Alaska, wherever trees grow, 
Woodland Tanges a larger and darker animal, the woodland 
Caribou. caribou. It does not migrate with any great regu- 
larity, although the herds, sometimes large, move about a 
good deal, and its habits are much like those of the moose save 
as to food, since it eats almost everything; but in Labrador and 
Newfoundland certain lichens and mosses are 
the mainstay. This woodland caribou was 
once to be found well within the bounds of 
the United States, but was early killed off 
south of northern Maine and the Upper Lakes, 
and later in the more settled parts of Canada. 
They are now protected by law. 
They mostly affect swampy places, and 
have little difficulty in wandering where other 
| deer would mire because of the spread of 
eee pence their deeply cleft toes, and the fact that the 
CARIBOU: false hoofs are large and low, sustaining a 
Showing concave part of the weight when the foot sinks. For 
tread and sharp 
edge. the same reason they travel well on snow; 
while the almost complete absorption of the 
“frog” in winter leaves the hoof hollowed out and with sharp 
edges, which so take hold of the crusted snow or ice that on 
such a surface they make their best speed —a fact especially 
true of the Barren Grounds caribou.” They move with a 
swinging trot which is surprisingly rapid, and will, when 
alarmed, run many miles before stopping. This woodland 
variety, exposed to many more dangers in its forests, has be- 
come an extremely wide-awake and wary animal, whose hunting 
taxes the powers of the sportsmen to the utmost. 
The caribou has never been utilized by any of the people of 
arctic America, although just across Bering Strait the same 
animal was kept in large herds by the Chuckchis of Siberia. 
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