Assertion: caribou | /r/CapableOf | eat lichen
Facets:
value: mainly
type: DEGREE
value: in winter
type: TEMPORAL
value: generally
type: DEGREE
value: depending on the season
type: OTHER
value: during fall
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: When it looks like there is nothing to eat on the winter tundra, caribou will scrape the snow away with their wide feet or antlers and eat lichens, dried sedges and small shrubs.
text: They mainly eat lichens in winter, especially reindeer lichen – a unique adaptation among mammals –
text: They also have developed special bacteria in their gut that help them digest lichen, and their ability to use this abundant but low-nutrition food helps them survive when there's nothing else to eat.
text: Caribou are herbivores, consuming mainly lichens, plants and grasses.
text: Depending on the season, it feeds on various plants, grass and lichens.
text: Reindeer live in cold climates, and they feed mostly on grass and lichen.
text: Caribou eat grasses, mosses, lichens, fungi, and twigs and leaves of birches and willows.
text: The caribou eats lichens, mushrooms, grasses, sedges, flowering tundra plants, the twigs of birches and willows and fruit.
text: They mainly eat lichens and other vegetation in the winter, but there is some evidence to suggest they will occasionally feed on lemmings and bird eggs!
text: In fact, Caribou are one of the few animals that have special microorganisms in their stomach which allows them to digest the lichens.
text: During fall and winter, they consume lichens (reindeer moss), dried sedges and small shrubs.
text: Caribou generally feed on green vascular plants, mushrooms, lichens, dwarf birch, sedges, cotton grass, and horsetails; which is indicative of a concentrate selector diet.
text: Reindeer mainly feed on grasses, herbs, sedges, mosses, fungi, twigs and lichens.