Collecting Animal Bones in Alaska | Best Job Ever

so here we are on the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge we’re here looking for
caribou antlers and bones
we are pretty much finding bones
wherever we go what we have here is a
shed bull caribou antler so a male large
male this is where it attaches to the
skull and these two points are these two
ends rather have been cut by humans
what’s interesting about that is that
this antler judging by the weathering is
probably a few hundred years old that
looks like we have a real long term
record of human caribou interactions
what we’re doing with all these bones is
trying to put together a picture of what
this ecosystem was like centuries to
thousands of years ago the Arctic refuge
is an amazing place gorgeous landscapes
incredible wildlife viewing beautiful
rivers to flow past but it has some
challenges including an epic number of
fogs here’s Eric lounging in the Arctic
this fieldwork is hard the weather’s bad
often the bugs are horrendous the food
is pretty darn lousy but wait the
excitement we have of getting out of our
tents and finding the bones that are out
there it drives us we’re finding things
that have never been seen before and
it’s incredibly exciting
looking good yeah we like it here
approximately two thousand beluga whales
come here every summer to hold their
skin socialize raise their young and
it’s just a big political party