Rangifer tarandus - #193
Caribou
Side view of three males. Rangifer tarandus pearyi, Peary'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
Canada, NU, Bathurst Island
Image Date
1971
Photographer
R Riewe