With heavily muscled bodies, skinny legs, and strong hooves that balloon to the size of dinner plates come winter, mountain caribou — the "mountain ecotype" of the woodland caribou — are well adapted ...

Researchers at the University of Calgary are suggesting a more comprehensive approach for identifying at-risk wildlife populations — such as caribou — based on individual movement patterns.

Caribou, called reindeer in Europe, are members of the deer family. "The species is iconic," says Dr. Marco Musiani, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Bologna and an adjunct professor at ...