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Title: Our big game; a book for sportsmen and nature lovers
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Huntington, Dwight Williams, 1851-
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting -- North America
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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raceful as thedeer. He is stockier, and the body is more like thatof the mule-deer than the Virginia deer. The color of the caribou is grayish brown on thebody and legs. The belly and rump are yellowish white.The color is said to be much paler in winter; a wood-land caribou will weigh as much as 500 pounds, possi-bly more. The feet of the caribou are peculiar. Grinnell says:The foot is broad and spreading, and the supplemen-tary hooflets or dew-claws are large, the whole beingadmirably adapted for supporting the animal in itspassage through marshes or over the snow. The thin,horny shell which forms the border of the hoof alsoserves it well when travelling on the ice. The repre-sentatives of the second and fourth digits contributesomething to the support of the animals weight, andare always more or less worn and abraded on their in-ferior surfaces. When the animal trots swiftly, thesedew-claws strike against one another with a loud,clattering noise. Mr. Ward refers to this noise as the
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A THE WOODLAND CARIBOU 149 peculiar castanet sound caused b) the split hoofs of thecaribou striking together. The caribou feeds largely upon reindeer-moss, lich-ens, shrubs, and grasses. The guides note well wherethey are feeding, and where the feed is best, and areusually able to conduct the sportsmen to the game, as,in all big-game shooting, guides are almost indispensa-ble, not only to find the game, but to prevent thesportsman from getting lost in the woods and to at-tend to many other matters already referred to. The caribou, when they have not been much hunted,are comparatively tame, and not hard to approach.Mr. Ward says when his haunts have been unmolestedhe will imconcernedly trot up within range of therifle. He believes, however, that a great deal of thisapparent fearlessness is due to defective vision. Thereare more places to-day, however, where the woodlandcaribou has been exterminated than there are where heis tame. In the inhospitable, uninhabited Arctic bar-rens where h

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