The woodland caribou lives in the forests and mountains. Another kind of caribou is called the barren ground caribou that lives on the frozen tundra of the far north where they roam looking for food. The caribou has split hooves. Its large hooves splay out as it walks to spread its body weight over a bigger surface a little bit as snowshoes. In winter time horns grow on their hooves and dig into the ice.
Caribou find mushrooms to be a treat.
In winter when the ground is covered with snow, the caribou eat the twigs of willow and birch trees or dig down with their hooves to find frozen bits of plants. The caribou rely on their strong sense of smell to find lichen and dried horsetails under the snow. Sometimes caribou even munch on muskrat dens in the winter. The woodland caribou likes to live in the forests and the mountains. The barren-ground caribou live in the frozen tundras of the far north.