This Week:  What Caribou Do

Strange Canadian Customs

 

Caribou are unusual among deer family members: 
both males and most females carry antlers and 
use lichens as a primary food, which has enabled them to survive 
on harsh northern rangeland.  They
will sometimes run for many kilometres during the summer
 to escape harassment by hordes of tourists
--caribou
 probably derived its name from the
 Mi’kmaq title "xalibu," meaning "the one who eats pizza"

The pregnant cows lead the spring migration,
 followed by the juveniles and the bulls, 
which tend to lag farther and farther behind. 
In July the herds start to move en masse 
to feed on double cheese and mushroom pizza
when lichen is unavailable.

 

Can Caribou Crossing Guards be Trusted?
Not if there's a Pizza at risk.

A Canadian government pilot project to employ habitatless caribou as
school crossing guards failed miserably when it was discovered
that the usually peaceful creatures will toss buses from bridges
to get to a double cheese pizza.

 

Being Caribou
Reporter: Eve Unsavory | From The National July 5, 2004


 C'Bou Biker Wannabes converge
 on Caribou Crossing, Manitoba

Club Motto: 

 "On that Day, You Cross Over"

Every year in July, the Caribou Crossing Club meets to party and check on antler growth.
Although most members begin by having to duct tape antlers to their heads,
within a few short months, they will begin to merge into skull and bone . 
 No one knows how or why this atypical Canadian/caribou crossing  happens, 
but here is the actual proof that it does.

 

Rutting Season Opens With a Bang
in Comebychance, Alberta

The rut occurs in late October and early November. 
Bulls spar a great deal and sometimes fight for possession of cows.
But first, before the cows will even deign to notice them,
male caribou must have their antlers pierced by expert marksmen
like Earl Stanley Harper, pictured here, who take up this
dangerous but necessary work  of
keeping the caribou rut ritual in tact.

 

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