Dr. Clayton Lamb, a researcher with UBC Okanagan's Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, led a team that recently published a paper detailing the migration patterns of several threatened caribou herds.

caribou, and baleen whales. The main source of energy used for migration is fat. Fat stores about 8–10 times more energy than the equivalent mass of either carbohydrate or protein, making fat ...

Spring is harvest season when you're living off the land in the high Arctic. Here's how the author learned from Inupiat ...

Caribou are also found throughout Canada's portion of the range. MIGRATION: Mountain caribou gather in small herds of four to 50 individuals. They do not participate in extensive migrations like their ...

And then – success! The migrating caribou passed right by the 360-camera, seemingly inquisitive of this foreign arrival in their land.” The result? Intimate never-seen-before footage of the ...

This crucial habitat is where tens of thousands of pregnant cows migrate each year to give birth. Porcupine caribou, named for a river within their range, can trek 3,000 miles in a year to reach ...

These are the animals with the longest migrations. In the Yukon, Porcupine caribou travel 3,000 miles. This is the longest migration by land of any mammal on Earth. Monarch butterflies fly about ...

According to these groups, the draft plan allows Weyerhaeuser to clearcut the remaining critical winter habitat and eliminate ...

Dolphin and Union caribou are threatened primarily by climate change and hunting pressure. The population must cross sea ice to migrate from its wintering grounds to calving grounds on Victoria Island ...

Decades of data following the migratory patterns of endangered caribou show that migration areas have decreased significantly. Researchers are concerned that resource extraction is disturbing ...