DCHP-3

mountain caribou

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of caribou, Rangifer arcticus montanus, native to the mountainous region of the Northwest.

Quotations

1908
. . . the variety of woodland caribou found in the Rocky Mountains of northern Canada may belong to the mountain caribou discovered in the Selkirk Range of British Columbia and made known to science by Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton, in 1899. It is said to be darker in colour than Maine and other eastern specimens.
1963
Pat Brady . . . had the honor of bagging the first mountain caribou calf to be captured in the world.