Group Cohesion and Leadership Response by Barren-Ground Caribou to Man-Made Barriers

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Miller, Frank L., Jonkel, Charles J., Tessier, Gaston D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1972
• Subjects: Icebreaking; Ice pressure; Ice-structure interaction; Louis S. St. Laurent (Ship); Manhattan (Ship); Marine transportation; Pressure ridges; Sea ice; Winds; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Baffin Bay; Corral; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Arctic; Baffin; Davis Strait; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66013

Barren-ground caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus of the Kaminuriak population on the Canadian mainland west of Hudson Bay make annual migrations of several hundred kilometres to and from their calving ground. A man-made barrier to corral caribou for marking and release failed because caribou wo...