reindeer: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	caribou • Rangifer tarandus

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Four reindeer with harnesses run together across snowy ground in Finland.

caribou in Labrador, Canada

Herding and snowmobiles

Caribou grazing in the 1002 Area of the coastal plain, the northern portion of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge designated for possible oil extraction, northeastern Alaska, U.S.; the Brooks Range is in the background.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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The impact of climate change on Sweden's reindeer population

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See the Tsaatan people herding reindeers in Mongolia

Yakut reindeer herders journeying through Siberia

Siberian Yakut nomads and their reindeer herds

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