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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Caribou found eating own body part to survive after epic Arctic migration: ‘My jaw dropped’

Caribou mothers gnaw on their own antlers for nutrition after their long migration in the cold and dry climate of the Arctic tundra, a new study reveals.

Caribous, also called reindeer, are the only species of deer in which females too have antlers.

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