Rangifer tarandus - #4047
Caribou
Skull of adult male
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, Fairbanks North Star borough, University of Alaska
Image Date
29 June 2009
Photographer
DG Huckaby