Milford News | 1931-01-22 | Page 3 | Caribou Compelled to Carry his Dead Enemy

Carib"u Compelled to Carry Kis Dead Enemy In Alaska, where wolves have terrorized ter-rorized the timid reindeer and slaughtered slaugh-tered them in great numbers, one hold wolf came to an inglorious end last summer when it tackled a bull ca rihou. A report to the biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture says: "Victorious in combat com-bat with the wolf hut unable to free himself from the dead body of his foe, a big hull caribou was seen a few days ago on Birch creek in the Circle country walking slowly along, bowed down under the wolf's weight. The woif apparently had been impaled im-paled upon the caribou's horns and mortally wounded, hut the caribou was unable to free himself from his burden. One of those who saw the caribou said the weight he carried was too great to permit him to run. Kvery time he passed a tree he would try to rub the wolf from his horns. He was accompanied by another bull, which would run ahead a few paces and then wait for his slower companion.''