Alaska caribou decrease has officials searching for answers
Causes could include the animals trampling their food, heavy predation from wolves and over-hunting by humans.
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Causes could include the animals trampling their food, heavy predation from wolves and over-hunting by humans.
SPOKANE, Wash. — A biologist says the south Selkirk mountain caribou herd may be extinct after aerial surveys found only three remaining animals. Bart George, wildlife biologist for the Kalispel Tribe, says two aerial surveys
As climate change leaves caribou more often trapped in close quarters with their predators, the Ontario government had to get creative to save three of the animals stuck on an island with wolves. The
Researchers do not have an answer yet for why the herd has experienced this latest growth spurt.
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