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- noun Plural form of
caribou .
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Examples
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No game was brought down but that required for food, such as caribous, Polar hares, &c., which, strange to say, instead of being scared away by the guns, continued to multiply near the fort.
The Fur Country 1874
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As these factors combine, more snow falls in the Arctic, making the caribous' journey much harder as the animals must plow through deeper snow than in the past.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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As you can see, global warming is impacting every aspect of the caribous' life cycle.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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As these factors combine, more snow falls in the Arctic, making the caribous' journey much harder as the animals must plow through deeper snow than in the past.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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The caribous are returning with fewer and fewer calves.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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Regardless of where they bear their calves, the caribous have an eternal urge to go to the coastal plain to find nutrient-rich cotton grass that they must eat in order to build the milk they need to nurse their calves.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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The following summer, Robert and I found a nearly perfect skeleton of one of those dead caribous on Barter Island near Robert's home.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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The following summer, Robert and I found a nearly perfect skeleton of one of those dead caribous on Barter Island near Robert's home.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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The caribous are returning with fewer and fewer calves.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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As you can see, global warming is impacting every aspect of the caribous' life cycle.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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