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Reindeer herders have their own stories about how reindeer were domesticated, and about the relationship between wild and domestic reindeer. Whatever the debate, the very fact of domination of a reindeer led to a reindeer revolution that spread to the North, East, and West. Sleds pulled by reindeer appeared later than dog sleds.
The reindeer we know today started taking form millions of years ago. In fact, it is believed that reindeer shared a common ancestor with humans during the dinosaur age, nearly 100 million years ago!
12. Sundrum herd (R.t. tarandus). 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 were introduced to, and are feral in, "Iceland, Kerguelen Islands, South Georgia Island, Pribilof Islands, St. Matthew Island"; [7] a free-ranging semi-domesticated herd is also present in Scotland. [178] There is strong regional variation in Rangifer herd size. There are large population differences among individual herds and the size ...
Reindeer are principally used for pulling sleds. In fact, very old, 1800-year-old Chinese manuscripts talk about domesticated reindeer, and Marco Polo even mentioned them over a thousand years later.
When most people think of reindeer, they think of Santa Claus, Christmas and Rudolph, but the truth about these animals is much drearier. Placed on the International Union for Conservations of ...
See Evolution in main page, Reindeer.Following are excerpts relating to boreal woodland caribou. Reindeer originated in a Late Pliocene North American-Beringian radiation of New World deer [Geist 1998). A frontoparietal skull fragment of Rangifer sp. from the Early Pleistocene of Omsk, Russia dates back to 2.1-1.8 Ma and suggests northern Eurasia as a center of reindeer o
The question of how many reindeer exist has long been debated among experts. The latest studies conclude that there are about seven million (7,000,000) wild and domesticated reindeer worldwide ...