POLYDACTYLISM IN A BARREN-GROUND CARIBOU FROM NORTHWESTERN MANITOBA

FRANK L. MILLER; ERIC BROUGHTON

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-7.4.307

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1 October 1971 POLYDACTYLISM IN A BARREN-GROUND CARIBOU FROM NORTHWESTERN MANITOBA

FRANK L. MILLER, ERIC BROUGHTON

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 7(4):307-309 (1971). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-7.4.307

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A polydactylous right front foot was collected from a 5-year-old female barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in northwestern Manitoba (59°21′N, 100°13′W). We determined by gross visual and radiographic examination that the foot had a complete extra digit in the position of the ancestral 1st digit. This is the first account of a polydactylous foot in the genus Rangifer.

MILLER and BROUGHTON: POLYDACTYLISM IN A BARREN-GROUND CARIBOU FROM NORTHWESTERN MANITOBA

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FRANK L. MILLER and ERIC BROUGHTON "POLYDACTYLISM IN A BARREN-GROUND CARIBOU FROM NORTHWESTERN MANITOBA," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 7(4), 307-309, (1 October 1971). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-7.4.307

Received: 5 July 1971; Published: 1 October 1971

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