From: "Guy Guthridge" <answer4@passport.ivv.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: What do caribou eat when it is all frozen over?
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:03:59 -0400

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From: onair@passport.ivv.nasa.gov <onair@passport.ivv.nasa.gov>
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 2:01 PM
Subject: What do caribou eat when it is all frozen over?


>Ashlin F. asks this Question:
>
>What do caribou eat when it is all frozen over?
>
>
>Answer:
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>The caribou eat the lichen which they can smell under the snow.  Then they
move the snow out of the way with their noses and eat the lichen.

Good question, Ashlin F.

Sincerely

Guy G. Guthridge
National Science Foundation