Rangifer tarandus - #1314
Caribou
Walking, feet visible (one lifted), antlers in velvet. Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, Barren-ground Caribou. Formerly Rangifer tarandus granti, Porcupine or Grant's Caribou.
Geographic Distribution
Circumboreal in tundra and taiga from Svalbard, Norway, Finland, Russia, Alaska (USA) and Canada including most arctic islands, and Greenland, south to N Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia; now only domesticated or feral?), Sakhalin Isl, and USA (N Idaho and Great Lakes region). Introduced to, and feral in, Iceland, Kerguelen Isls, South Georgia Isl, Pribilof Isls, St. Matthew Isl. Extinct in Sweden.
Order/Family
Cervidae
Genus
Rangifer
Specific Epithet
tarandus
Image Location
USA, AK, North Slope, Prudhoe Bay
Image Date
1989
Photographer
BJ Bergstrom