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Caribou

• Also known as reindeer
• Eat mosses and lichens, especially reindeer moss
• Can be hunted traditionally with a bow and arrow but only during certain
times of the year and by indigenous peoples
• Very gamey meat, can be found in some sausages called reindeer sausages
• Decreasing population
• Porcupine Caribou Herd (below) at about 169, 000, steadily declining