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The reindeer (caribou in North America) is a widespread and numerous species in the northern Holarctic, being present in both tundra and taiga (boreal forest). [1] Originally, the reindeer was found in Scandinavia, eastern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, and northern China north of the 50th latitude.
Reindeer live in the far northern regions of Europe, North America, and Asia.They enjoy colder climates like tundra and boreal forests. We can find them in northern countries, which include:
The reindeer or caribou [a] (Rangifer tarandus) [5] is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. [2] It is the only representative of the genus Rangifer. More recent studies suggest the splitting of reindeer and caribou ...
Domesticated reindeer, or caribou, can be found on ranches and farms across North America and Northern Europe and Asia. However, most of the reindeer population lives in the wild.
The barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus; but subject to a recent taxonomic revision) is a subspecies of the reindeer (or the caribou in North America) that is found in the Canadian territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, in northern Alaska and in south-western Greenland.
St. Matthew Island Reindeer Numbers Plummet — 1966. Klein returned to St. Matthew Island in the summer of 1966 and found that the herd of 6,000 had shrunk to only 42 reindeer.
The reindeer is called caribou in North America but retains the name reindeer across Europe and Asia. However, when caribou are domesticated in North America, they are referred to as reindeer ...
Reindeer live in the mountains of southern Norway, and it’s estimated there are around 6,000 left in the wild. Scientists expect the changes to level out as hunting regulations are enforced.