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posted: March 31st, 2021 |
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As stated on the previous page, this page continues March 22 at 11:32 AM. This entire page covers only 28 minutes of time, so the final photo on this page was taken at 12:00 Noon. WOW! There are only a couple of scenery photos here, the remainder are all photos of Caribou (Rangifer tarandus). Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| March 22nd Continues From Page 2 (at 11:32 AM) |
All three photos in this row were taken for their scenic content. There might be some Caribou in the third photo, but that was not the reason the photo was taken.
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All three photos in this row again show Caribou. The first photo was taken while looking back towards the direction we just came, but the second and third photos show a different herd of animals. In the center photo the herd is between the two parallel black lines. Can you find it?
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Here are three additional photos which show the herd which is headed downhill.
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Here are three more shots which show that same herd, but now they are beginning to head up the other side of the valley.
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In these three shots they are still headed uphill - where will they go?
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It seems like they want to come up to and cross the Steese Highway, which we are standing upon. In the third photo they are possibly checking us out to see if we are going to start shooting (bullets) at them.
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In the first shot in this row they appear to be headed straight toward us. The second and third photos show a different herd, which is about a mile away in the opposite direction.
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In these three shots they are obviously checking us out. Note the collar on the animal in the first photo. In the third photo one animal looks frightened as it reports to the other one.
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The first two shots in this row show that we are still being checked out. In the third shot it seems like they have made a decision that we do not smell like gunpowder, so they aren't excessively worried.
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They came up to and a little distance out on to the highway two or three times and went back below the highway before the leader finally convinced everybody that "we must cross".
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In the first photo in this row it appears that the animal in the front has his or her legs locked and is saying that he or she cannot jump up that snowbank. In the second photo it appears that the lead animal says that he or she refuses to jump and is going back downhill. The third photo shows what is happening a mile behind us at this time.
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In the first shot here they still seem to be checking out our intentions. In the second photo you can see a larger animal standing behind the others, maybe encouraging a leap to the top of the snowbank. The third shot shows that most of them have refused to jump and are again going to go back downhill, but that larger animal in the back is looking at the snowbank and motioning them to "JUMP, you animals". Most interesting.
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Okay, FINALLY they have been convinced that the way to go is uphill, and to do that the snowbank needs to be conquered. Not a single animal lost its footing and fell down there.
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