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Both caribou and reindeer have the same scientific name, Rangifer tarandus, and are of the same species. The key thing that differentiates reindeer from caribou is the fact that a reindeer is ...
Reindeer, or caribou, are members of the deer family Cervidae. Deer, elk, moose, and wapiti are also members of this family. The distinction between reindeer and caribou depends on where they live.
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 ...
The Capreolinae includes caribou deer (reindeer), whitetail deer, roe deer, and moose. As such, they are two different species within the same subfamily: whitetail deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ...
Elk were long believed to belong to a subspecies of the European red deer (Cervus elaphus), but evidence from many mitochondrial DNA genetic studies, beginning in 1998, shows that the two are distinct species. The elk's wider rump-patch and paler-hued antlers are key morphological differences that distinguish C. canadensis from C. elaphus.
R. t. caribou (Boreal woodland caribou) R. t. dawsoni (Queen Charlotte Islands caribou) R. t. fennicus (Finnish forest reindeer) R. t. groenlandicus (Barren-ground caribou) R. t. osborni (Osborn's caribou) R. t. pearsoni (Novaya Zemlya reindeer) R. t. pearyi (Peary caribou) R. t. phylarchus (Kamchatkan reindeer) R. t. platyrhynchus (Svalbard ...
Reindeer (also known as caribou) are a member of the deer family, native to the tundra, boreal forests, and mountains of the extreme frigid north. In human culture, they are a staple of northern ...
The reasons for this are that (1) Greenland caribou are the most genetically divergent of all caribou and reindeer, with an average microsatellite genetic difference (Fixation Index) of F ST = 44% from all others, [26] justifying species status as originally named, Rangifer groenlandicus; it also has morphological and behavioral differences ...