Female caribou, running
off after approaching us.
Cariboes walk around in
small groups of a few animals. They are curious animals, and approach us,
trying to make out our scent but do not recognize us.
Peary, the Arctic explorer
visiting this area around 1900 (who never reached the pole as he falsified his
log book), is said to have killed most
of the cariboes of this regions for fuel and food and they are said still to be
recovering