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Osborn's caribou

[< Henry F. Osborn, 1857-1935, U.S. zoologist]

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a large race of caribou (def. 1), Rangifer tarandus osborni, of northern British Columbia and the southern Yukon, now regarded as identical with the woodland caribou.

See: caribou

Quotations

1916

You will not get any wapiti or deer there, but . . . you could hardly fail to get specimens of moose, Osborn's caribou, Stone's sheep, and mountain goats, with a good chance of a grizzly or black bear or a wolf or fox.

1921

There is no animal in all North American fauna, even the bull elk, that presents a more splendid figure than that huge member of the deer family, Osborn's caribou.

1960

The Spatsizi is the summer haunt of the Osborne caribou who come to browse on the rich plant life.