caribou

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1974
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Arctic; Beothuck; caribou; elk; Moose; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/12672

caribou n Early explorers to Newfoundland, upon returning to their native lands, reported seeing: "stags of an unusual height and size", "deere", and in a Beothuck Indian encampment "furre gounes of Elke-skin." All these descriptions, of course, refer to the introduction of moose the caribou was the lonly large wild herbiverous animal in Newfoundland. Early settlers named it after the European animals it most closely resembled and as a result the names deer, elk (European moose) and even _le ane_ (the donkey) became synonyms for this animal. the Woodland Caribou is closely related to the smaller barren-ground caribou of the Arctic and to the reindeer of Northen Europe. It is the only member of the deer family in which the females as well as the males bear antlers. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit GMS Sept 74 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used cariboo, carribou, ~ deer, karaboo, caribou berry, caribou feed, caribou fly, carabou Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Mon 06 Apr 2015; Card marked DNE-cit, but not used.