Interaction between barren-ground caribou and muskrats
Barren-ground caribou, Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, have been observed to systematically expose, trample, and eat the pushups constructed on ice in winter by muskrats, Ondatra zibethicus, for feeding. Muskrats may be inconvenienced, or frozen out, by this behavior and the caribou may be attracte...
Published in: | Canadian Journal of Zoology |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Canadian Science Publishing
1970
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z70-108 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z70-108 |
Summary: | Barren-ground caribou, Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, have been observed to systematically expose, trample, and eat the pushups constructed on ice in winter by muskrats, Ondatra zibethicus, for feeding. Muskrats may be inconvenienced, or frozen out, by this behavior and the caribou may be attracted by the frozen but green vegetation of which the pushups are constructed. |
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