JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The size of a large caribou herd in Alaska’s Arctic region has dropped by more 50 percent over the last three years, and researchers who have tentatively ruled out ...

Female caribou shed their antlers within days of giving birth, leaving behind a record of their annual travels across Alaska and Canada's Yukon that persists on the cold tundra for hundreds or ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — The size of a large caribou herd in Alaska’s Arctic region has dropped by more 50 percent over the last three years, and researchers who have tentatively ruled out hunting and ...

A female caribou runs near Teshekpuk Lake in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska on June 12, 2022. The Teshekpuk Caribou Herd gives birth to its calves in the land around the vast lake ...

Lincoln Parrett, a Fairbanks-based caribou biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and ... survival rates are being mirrored in the adult female survival rate, which is on track to be among ...

The herd’s calving grounds are located within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska ... as a result, caribou can run much faster than reindeer. Female reindeer tend to be heavier with larger ...

this time a 9-month-old female caribou named Maeve. According to an announcement from the zoo, Maeve arrived in Milwaukee ...

Clearly, all these factors are in play for the Mulchatna herd, while rising temperatures increase future uncertainty for caribou. After reviewing Fish and Game’s briefing to the Alaska Board of ...

which had put trackable collars on more than 300 female caribou in the Western Arctic Caribou Herd. The team tracked the herd's movements and deaths as it traveled across a region spanning more ...

Caribou, or tutu in Inupiat, traverse the snowy heart of Alaska’s Brooks Range. Each spring, caribou all across the North American Arctic begin extraordinary migrations toward their calving grounds.

Surveys by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game suggest the herd dwindled to about 22,000 caribou this year. There has been a higher than normal rate of death among adult female caribou tracked with ...