Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4403
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1. Code 1958 Caris lupus 8 July - cont- lump, and part of the lump had been eaten. Griffin says that this is the typical method of entry, and that the wolves usually eat only parts of the viscera-especially the lump's liver. The whole cut out of the rib cage is just large enough for entry of the head. The wolves do not return to their kills, but move on with the caribou. In the instance referred to above, there were conspicuous declarations on the nose of the caribou but up other marks indicating that the animal had been attacked elsewhere. In falling it apparently broke its neck. Of some hundred kills which Griffin has seen, there has never been any indication that the caribou was caught by ham-striking as is commonly thought. Typically, after the wolves leave the hill, wolves move in first and eat the viscera so that all that is left in the body cavity is the contents of stomach, Caecum etc.-in a pile by itself. Also, they seem partial to the head region, Laterig eyes, tongue and portions of the neck. The head is frequently detached and carried or dragged away from the carcass - detached at circulation atlas & condyles