Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 209
have one very great advantage in thestruggle for life over their giant cousin, theMoose, who so often dwells in the same forestwith them. The Mooses long legs and vast[wwer enable him in winter to go through snowswhere an ordinary deer flounders helplessly;l:)ut, when the snows are very deep and a… … Caribou. have completely killed out the Moose by thisvillainous habit of crusting. The Caribou,however, is not, like the Moose, forced to plungehis legs through the snow to hard ground ; hepossesses huge splay hoofs and very limber joints,so that he himself has snow-shoes, as it were,and only under…
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