The online collection at UBC/MOA shows 15 different pairs. All North American except for one pair of (old?) Japanese snow shoes.
Reindeer are similarly ill-equipped like moose for deep snow in the Boreal Forest Biome where I live.
There's not a whole lot of precipitation in the Polar Desert Biome. Doesn't seem to bother the Musk-Ox.
That's why we have large areas closed to snowmobile traffic.
Just too easy for a wolf pack to chase down caribou when they can run on packed trails.
The disturbance changes the snow quality and it sets up pretty hard is 30 minutes or less.
The cats, the rabbits and the birds are built for it with their snowshoe feet.
Reindeer are similarly ill-equipped like moose for deep snow in the Boreal Forest Biome where I live.
There's not a whole lot of precipitation in the Polar Desert Biome. Doesn't seem to bother the Musk-Ox.
That's why we have large areas closed to snowmobile traffic.
Just too easy for a wolf pack to chase down caribou when they can run on packed trails.
The disturbance changes the snow quality and it sets up pretty hard is 30 minutes or less.
The cats, the rabbits and the birds are built for it with their snowshoe feet.