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The mountain reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus), also called the Norwegian reindeer, northern reindeer, common reindeer or mountain caribou, is a mid-sized to large subspecies of the reindeer that is native to the western Scandinavian Peninsula, particularly Norway. In Norway, it is called fjellrein, villrein or tundra-rein.
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:
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide ... (Siberian tundra reindeer) R. t. tarandus (Mountain reindeer)
Native to the Arctic region, reindeer are one of the staples for the survival of arctic people, used for transportation, food, and clothing for generations. There are around 7 million reindeer ...
As you can see, the reindeer population (both wild and domesticated) is dwindling in many places. This is due to several factors. Disease. Reindeer are susceptible to disease, just like any other ...
Domesticated reindeer are mostly found in northern Fennoscandia and Russia, with a herd of approximately 150–170 semi-domesticated reindeer living around the Cairngorms region in Scotland. Although formerly more widespread in Scandinavia, the last remaining wild mountain reindeer in Europe are found in portions of southern Norway. [6]
Reindeer are found in the northernmost parts of the world, in both North America and Eurasia. They inhabit tundras and deep forests, preferring far colder climates than their Whitetail cousins.
There are only two genetically pure populations of wild reindeer in Northern Europe: wild mountain reindeer (R. t. tarandus) that live in central Norway, with a population in 2007 of between 6,000 and 8,400 animals; [229] and wild Finnish forest reindeer (R. t. fennicus) that live in central and eastern Finland and in Russian Karelia, with a ...