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Endangered Species: The Woodland Caribou

After just recently visiting the wondrous environment of British Columbia, it has not only fascinated me but also opened my awareness that places like British Columbia are thinning around the world. Along with the mountains, abundant trees, and flowing streams is the wildlife. I was fortunate to come across one individual of the wildlife there. It happened to be a woodland Caribou.
The woodland Caribou is a particularly large mammal that stay in small groups and don’t migrate too long of distances. A typical male weighs in at 270 kg and the average female weighs 115 kg. They are found in the western provinces of Canada and also in Ontario along foothills, mountain parks, and eastern slopes