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Caribou (Rangifer tarandus)

Caribou (Rangifer tarandus)
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus)

About Caribou (Rangifer tarandus)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Mammals
  • Order: Even-toed Ungalates and Cetacean
  • Family: Cervidae

The Peary caribou or reindeer, Rangifer tarandus pearyi, is an Endangered subspecies.
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Lifelists

Trips

Visits

  • 2000-06-15
    Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, United States of America
    Seen daily in small groups at the beginning, but gradually growing to a group of about 10,000 in the 1002 area. Another group of about 1000 visited the airstrip.
    Image from 2000-06-15
  • 2010-05-29
    Saint George Island, United States of America
    Image from 2010-05-29
  • 2015-03-20
    Van Mijenfjorden, Svalbard
    Image from 2015-03-20
    Image from 2015-03-20