Caribou hoofs are strung onto a caribou skin cord and used as rattles. Caribou hides are made into soft, warm clothing. Clothing used in summer has the hair removed. Winter clothing is made with the ...

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 ...

A lightning strike like this one in the Ray Mountains north of the Yukon River may have been responsible for the mysterious death of caribou in June 1972. (Photo by Ned Rozell) Fifty-three years ...