Alaskan Road Hazard

Caribou as a road hazard? Hard to imagine such a thing for us folk who dwell in the lower 48 states. But there he was just walking down this unpaved road in Denali park. We were on a bus tour that traveled throughout the park for 9 hours. It is a big and spectacular park. We were told that it holds much wild life but they stayed out of sight for the most part. No animal stood at the side of the road for us to photograph...but this lone Caribou. The area was covered in head high scrub brush unique to tundra areas. He came walking out of this brush, bounded across the road but returned to the road after he had gotten ahead of us. He proceeded to walk slowly along the road so that the bus driver could ease up behind him. We also spotted bears, mountain sheep, foxes, and other Caribou but most were too far away for a good photograph.