Rangifer tarandus - #477
Caribou
Aerial view of migrating herd. 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, Denali National Park
Image Date
1962
Photographer
A Murie (contributed by JO Murie)