Alaska field notes, v4469
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Journa 51 bumble bees, all of which were feeding on Pedicularis capitata, this in spite of the fact that there were many other flowering plants such as Dryas, Astragalus, Saxifraga and Anemone. Further inland, on sandy ridges I saw Campanula imiflora, and in the wet boggy spots, Pyrola grandiflora, Silene Melandrium apetalum, Saxifraga We kept walking to about where the sand dunes begin. In one of these small ponds we found there, we caught small shrimp like creatures, many of which were copulating. The males had large greenish modified appendages at the anterior end with which they classed the females near the rear end. The females revealed eggs in their abdomen and they lacked the modified appendages. We collected several of them. On the dunes we saw several Arctic Ground squirrels (Citellus gerryi) and several flowering plants - Epilobium latifolium, Mertensia We got back to camp at about 16:00 and we made a snack. After writing some notes, I decided to take a map till supper time. However, when I had barely snoozed 15 minutes Tom woke us up with news about some 50 Caribou, while the Eskimos had spotted about 2 km. S. of where we had been all day. From our camp we could see the animals - as black dots. One boat with 6 Eskimos and an equal # of guns took off for the hunt. We decided to follow in our boat. We landed near where we went on land this morning and cautiously walked to the beach along the river. The 50 animals reported by Tom grew to about 300 as we saw more of them laying around chewing the end. As we went closer still it became clear that