Did you know that the Mountain Caribou is a woodland caribou that don’t migrate? Yes! According to Conservation Northwest Organization, “unlike the Barren-ground caribou the migrate during winter time, woodland caribou live within the same mountains and forests to find food and escape praetors, they climb high into the mountains in summer and descend into old-growth forests during the chilly winter months.”
Mountain caribou are endangered species in North America because of the loss of their habitat due to commercial logging, climate change, and hunting.
The mountain caribou’s main diet is arboreal lichen. These niche grow on trees.
Lichee are composed of fungus, and green algae. Lichen don’t hurt the trees. It’s the fungi outside the lichen relationship that harms the trees.
I hope you liked the poem and learned something about the Mountain caribou.