Snowforest Taiga when the firetrucks show up

This behavior reminds me somewhat of aging. As each year passed, certain areas of the body suffer loss.. whether in size, memory, capability, and stability. This disease.. it didn't completely shut off the brain function, but it took away essential bits that it needed to keep the creature surviving by independence.

During the time of her explanation, Askari had been circling the corpse, studying different locations.

It took only a short time for this one to succumb to its fate... if this disease continues to spread, a majority of what herds find their way here will either suffer and decease, or move elsewhere and leave us without a competent source of sustenance.

While it may have been better to request permission before doing so, curiosity took the better of her mind. Before when she searched the specimen, she noticed that one of its antlers had broken off. After relocating it, Askari grabbed it within her jaws and roughly jarred it through the flesh of the caribou somewhere around where the heart should have been. As expected, the organ was placed correctly. Like the brain, it had also suffered great loss.

The heart deteriorated just as quick, if not more-so than the brain. It doesn't take long for the disease to be caught and once it has been, there is no curing it. Normally, when these things happen, it's the more logical approach to find the source to help contain the outbreak... however, in this circumstance, the source is likely long dead. Those else that have already been infected will need to be found and killed before they can pass it on. Until then, any caribou hunted should not be eaten unless it has been proven healthy upon being struck down. A bold suggestion to make, given she had no leadership status. However, she felt the need to pass her opinion promptly as to avoid fatality with their own kind.