Reindeer

The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as caribou in North America,[4] is

Reindeer

a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic, tundra,

boreal, and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.[5] (Caribou)

This includes both sedentary and migratory populations. This is the only species in the Temporal range:
genus Rangifer. Its herd size varies greatly in different geographic regions.

R. tarandus varies in size and colour from the smallest subspecies, the Svalbard
reindeer (R. t. platyrhynchus), to the largest, the boreal woodland caribou (R. t.
caribou). The North American range of caribou extends from Alaska through the
Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut into the boreal forest and south
through the Canadian Rockies.[6] The barren-ground caribou (R. t. groenlandicus),
porcupine caribou (R. t. granti), and Peary caribou (R. t. pearyi) live in the tundra,
while the shy boreal woodland caribou prefer the boreal forest. The Porcupine caribou
and the barren-ground caribou form large herds and undertake lengthy seasonal A reindeer in Norway
migrations from birthing grounds to summer and winter feeding grounds in the tundra Conservation status
and taiga. The migrations of Porcupine caribou herds are among the longest of any
mammal.[6] Barren-ground caribou are also found in Kitaa in Greenland, but the
larger herds are in Alaska, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.[7]

The Taimyr herd of migrating Siberian tundra reindeer (R. t. sibiricus) in Russia is the Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[2]
largest wild reindeer herd in the world,[8][9] varying between 400,000 and 1,000,000.
What was once the second largest herd is the migratory boreal woodland caribou (R. t.
caribou) George River herd in Canada, with former variations between 28,000 and
385,000. As of January 2018, there are fewer than 9,000 animals estimated to be left
Secure (NatureServe)[3]
in the George River herd, as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[10]
The New York Times reported in April 2018 of the disappearance of the only herd of Scientific classification
southern mountain woodland caribou in the contiguous United States with an expert
Kingdom: Animalia
calling it "functionally extinct" after the herd's size dwindled to a mere three
animals.[11] After the last individual, a female, was translocated to a wildlife Phylum: Chordata
rehabilitation centre in Canada, the woodland caribou was considered extirpated from
Class: Mammalia
the contiguous United States.[12]
Order: Artiodactyla
Some subspecies are rare and two have already become extinct: the Queen Charlotte
Islands caribou of Canada and the East Greenland caribou from East Family: Cervidae
Greenland.[13][14][15] Historically, the range of the sedentary boreal woodland caribou Subfamily: Capreolinae
covered more than half of Canada[16] and into the northern states of the contiguous
Tribe: Odocoileini
United States. Woodland caribou have disappeared from most of their original
southern range and were designated as threatened in 2002 by the Committee on the Genus: Rangifer

Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).[17] Environment Canada C. H. Smith, 1827

reported in 2011 that there were approximately 34,000 boreal woodland caribou in 51
ranges remaining in Canada (Environment Canada, 2011b).[18] Siberian tundra Species: R. tarandus
reindeer herds are also in decline, and Rangifer tarandus is considered to be Binomial name
vulnerable by the IUCN.
Rangifer tarandus

Arctic peoples have depended on caribou for food, clothing, and shelter, such as the (Linnaeus, 1758)
Caribou Inuit, the inland-dwelling Inuit of the Kivalliq Region in northern Canada, the
Caribou Clan in the Yukon, the Iñupiat, the Inuvialuit, the Hän, the Northern
Tutchone, and the Gwichʼin (who followed the Porcupine caribou for millennia).
Hunting wild reindeer and herding of semi-domesticated reindeer are important to
several Arctic and subarctic peoples such as the Duhalar for meat, hides, antlers, milk,
and transportation.[19] The Sámi people (Sápmi) have also depended on reindeer Reindeer range: North American
herding and fishing for centuries.[20]: IV [21]: 16 [20]: IV  In Sápmi, reindeer are used to pull (green) and Eurasian (red)
a pulk,[22] a Nordic sled.
Synonyms
Male ("bulls") and female ("cows") reindeer can grow antlers annually, although the
proportion of females that grow antlers varies greatly between population and Cervus tarandus Linnaeus, 1758
season.[23] Antlers are typically larger on males. In traditional United States Christmas
legend, Santa Claus's reindeer pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus
deliver gifts to good children on Christmas Eve.

Contents
Naming
Taxonomy and evolution
Subspecies
Evolution
Physical characteristics
Antlers
Pelt
Heat exchange
Hooves
Size
Clicking sound
Eyes
Biology and behaviours
Seasonal body composition
Reproduction and life cycle
Social structure, migration and range
Ecology
Distribution and habitat
Diet
Predators
Other threats
Conservation
Current status
Boreal woodland caribou (COSEWIC designation as threatened)
Peary caribou (COSEWIC designation as endangered)
Relationship with humans
Indigenous North Americans
Indigenous Eurasians
Husbandry
History
Santa Claus
Mythology and art
Heraldry and symbols
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links
Caribou-specific links (North America)
Naming
Carl Linnaeus chose the name Rangifer for the reindeer genus, which Albertus Magnus used in his De animalibus, fol. Liber
22, Cap. 268: "Dicitur Rangyfer quasi ramifer". This word may go back to the Saami word raingo.[24] Linnaeus chose the
word tarandus as the specific epithet, making reference to Ulisse Aldrovandi's Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia
fol. 859–863, Cap. 30: De Tarando (1621). However, Aldrovandi and Konrad Gesner[25] thought that rangifer and tarandus
were two separate animals.[26] In any case, the tarandos name goes back to Aristotle and Theophrastus.

The use of the terms reindeer and caribou for essentially the same animal can cause confusion, but the International Union
for Conservation of Nature clearly delineates the issue: "The world's Caribou and Reindeer are classified as a single species
Rangifer tarandus. Reindeer is the European name for the species while in North America, the species is known as
Caribou."[2] The word rein is of Norse origin. The word deer was originally broader in meaning, but became more specific
over time. In Middle English, der meant a wild animal of any kind, in contrast to cattle.[27] The word caribou comes through
French, from the Mi'kmaq qalipu, meaning "snow shoveler" and referring to its habit of pawing through the snow for
food.[28]

Because of its importance to many cultures, Rangifer tarandus and some of its subspecies have names in many languages.
Inuktitut is spoken in the eastern Canadian Arctic, and the caribou is known by the name tuktu.[29][30][31] The Gwich'in
people have over 24 distinct caribou-related words.[32]

Taxonomy and evolution

The species' taxonomic name, Rangifer tarandus, was defined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The woodland caribou subspecies'
taxonomic name Rangifer tarandus caribou was defined by Gmelin in 1788.

Based on Banfield's often-cited A Revision of the Reindeer and Caribou, Genus Rangifer (1961),[33] R. t. caboti (the
Labrador caribou), R. t. osborni (Osborn's caribou—from British Columbia) and R. t. terraenovae (the Newfoundland
caribou) were considered invalid and included in R. t. caribou.

Some recent authorities have considered them all valid, even suggesting that they are quite distinct. In his chapter in the
book entitled Mammal Species of the World, English zoologist Peter Grubb agrees with Valerius Geist, specialist on large
North American mammals, that this range actually includes several subspecies.[34][35][36][Notes 1]

Geist (2007) argued that the "true woodland caribou, the uniformly dark, small-maned type with the frontally emphasised,
flat-beamed antlers", which is "scattered thinly along the southern rim of North American caribou distribution" has been
incorrectly classified. He affirms that the "true woodland caribou is very rare, in very great difficulties and requires the most
urgent of attention."[34]

In 2005, an analysis of mtDNA found differences between the caribou from Newfoundland, Labrador, southwestern Canada,
and southeastern Canada, but maintained all in R. t. caribou.[37]

Mallory and Hillis argued that "Although the taxonomic designations reflect evolutionary events, they do not appear to
reflect current ecological conditions. In numerous instances, populations of the same subspecies have evolved different
demographic and behavioural adaptations, while populations from separate subspecies have evolved similar demographic
and behavioural patterns... "[U]nderstanding ecotype in relation to existing ecological constraints and releases may be more
important than the taxonomic relationships between populations."[38]

Current classifications of Rangifer tarandus, either with prevailing taxonomy on subspecies, designations based on ecotypes,
or natural population groupings, fail to capture "the variability of caribou across their range in Canada" needed for effective
species conservation and management.[39] "Across the range of a species, individuals may display considerable
morphological, genetic, and behavioural variability reflective of both plasticity and adaptation to local environments."[40]
COSEWIC developed Designated Unit (DU) attribution to add to classifications already in use.[39]

Subspecies
In 2005, Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.) recognised 14 subspecies, two of which are extinct.[7]
 Extant subspecies of Rangifer tarandus
Weight of
Image Subspecies Name Sedentary/migratory Division[7] Range
male
Russia and the
R. t. buskensis[35]
Busk reindeer Woodland[7] neighbouring No data
(Millais, 1915)[41] regions

R. t. caboti** (G. M. Quebec and

Labrador
Allen, Tundra Labrador, No data
caribou
1914)[7][Notes 2][34][35] Canada

Woodland
caribou
(includes
boreal
woodland Largest
R. t. caribou caribou, Boreal Southern North
Sedentary[Notes 3]
(Gmelin, 1788)[33] migratory forest Canada[42] American
woodland subspecies
caribou and
mountain
woodland
caribou)

150–
Northwestern
R. t. fennicus Finnish forest 250 kg
(Lönnberg, 1909) reindeer
Migratory Woodland[7] Russia and
(330–
Finland[22][42] 550 lb)

Porcupine Alaska, the

R. t. granti (Allen, caribou or United States
Migratory Tundra
1902)[33] Grant's and the Yukon,
caribou Canada

The High Arctic

islands of
Nunavut and
R. t. groenlandicus Barren-ground the Northwest 150 kg
Migratory Tundra
(Borowski, 1780)[33] caribou Territories, (330 lb)
Canada and
western
Greenland

R. t. osborni** (Allen, British

Osborn's
Woodland Columbia, No data
1902)[Notes 2][34][35] caribou
Canada
The Novaya
Novaya Island subspecies
R. t. pearsoni Zemlya
Zemlya make local Tundra No data
(Lydekker, 1903)[35] reindeer movements
archipelago of
Russia[42]

The High Arctic

islands of Smallest
R. t. pearyi (Allen, Island subspecies Nunavut and North
Peary caribou make local Tundra
1902)[33] the Northwest American
movements Territories, subspecies
Canada[42]
 R. t. phylarchus Kamchatkan Woodland[7] The No data
(Hollister, 1912)[35] reindeer Kamchatka
Peninsula and
the regions
bordering the
Sea of
Okhotsk,
Russia[42]

Island subspecies The Svalbard

R. t. platyrhynchus Svalbard Smallest
make local Tundra archipelago of
(Vrolik, 1829) reindeer subspecies
movements Norway[42]

Siberia,
Russia[42]
(Franz Josef
R. t. sibiricus Siberian Land during
tundra Tundra the Holocene No data
(Murray, 1866)[35]
reindeer from >6400–
1300 cal. BP
(locally
extinct))[43]
The Arctic
tundra of the
Fennoscandian
Mountain Peninsula in
R. t. tarandus reindeer or Tundra or
Migratory Norway[22][42] No data
(Linnaeus, 1758) Norwegian mountain
and the
reindeer
Austfirðir in
Iceland
(introduced)[44]

R. t. terraenovae**
Newfoundland Newfoundland,
(Bangs, Woodland No data
caribou Canada
1896)[7][Notes 2][34][35]

The Ural
Mountains,
R. t. valentinae** Siberian forest Boreal Russia and the
No data
(Flerov, 1933)[7] reindeer forest Altai
Mountains,
Mongolia[42]

Extinct subspecies of Rangifer tarandus

Weight
Extinct
Subspecies Name Sedentary/migratory Division Range of
since
male

R. t. dawsoni Graham Island of the Queen

†Queen Charlotte
(Thompson-Seton, Charlotte Islands archipelago, off No
Islands caribou or Extinct Woodland 1908
the coast of British Columbia, data
1900)[33] Dawson's caribou
Canada
R. t.
†East Greenland caribou No
eogroenlandicus Extinct Tundra Eastern Greenland 1900
or Arctic reindeer data
(Degerbøl, 1957)[15]

The table above includes R. t. caboti (the Labrador caribou), R. t. osborni (Osborn's caribou – from British Columbia) and R.
t. terraenovae (the Newfoundland caribou). Based on a review in 1961,[33] these were considered invalid and included in R. t.
caribou, but some recent authorities have considered them all valid, even suggesting that they are quite distinct.[34][35] An
analysis of mtDNA in 2005 found differences between the caribou from Newfoundland, Labrador, southwestern Canada and
southeastern Canada, but maintained all in R. t. caribou.[37]
There are seven subspecies of reindeer in Eurasia, of which only two are found in Fennoscandia: the mountain reindeer (R. t.
tarandus) in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia and the Finnish forest reindeer (R. t. fennicus) in Finland and Russia.[22]

Two subspecies are found only in North America: the Porcupine caribou (R. t. granti) and the Peary caribou (R. t. pearyi).
The barren-ground caribou (R. t. groenlandicus) is found in western Greenland, but the larger herds are in Alaska, the
Northwest Territories and Nunavut.[7]

According to Grubb, based on Banfield[33] and considerably modified by Geist,[45] these subspecies and divisions are
considered valid:[7] the caribou or woodland caribou division, which includes R. t. buskensis, R. t. caribou, R. t. dawsoni, R.
t. fennicus, R. t. phylarchus and R. t. valentinae (R. t. osborni is a transitional subspecies between the caribou and tarandus
divisions), the tarandus or tundra reindeer division, which includes R. t. caboti, R. t. groenlandicus, R. t. pearsoni, R. t.
sibiricus and R. t. terraenovae and the platyrhynchus or dwarf reindeer division, which includes R. t. pearyi and R. t.
platyrhynchus.

Some of the Rangifer tarandus subspecies may be further divided by ecotype depending on several behavioural factors –
predominant habitat use (northern, tundra, mountain, forest, boreal forest, forest-dwelling, woodland, woodland (boreal),
woodland (migratory) or woodland (mountain), spacing (dispersed or aggregated) and migration patterns (sedentary or
migratory).[46][47][48]

Evolution

The "glacial-interglacial cycles of the upper Pleistocene had a major influence on the evolution" of Rangifer tarandus and
other Arctic and subarctic species. Isolation of Rangifer tarandus in Last Glacial Maximum refugia
during the last glacial –
the Wisconsin glaciation in North America and the Weichselian glaciation in Eurasia-shaped "intraspecific genetic
variability" particularly between the North American and Eurasian parts of the Arctic.[4]

In 1986, Kurtén reported that the oldest reindeer fossil was an "antler of tundra reindeer type from the sands of Süssenborn"
in the Pleistocene (Günz) period (680,000 to 620,000 BP).[1] By the 4-Würm period (110,000–70,000 to 12,000–10,000
BP) its European range was very extensive. Reindeer occurred in

...Spain, Italy, and southern Russia. Reindeer [was] particularly abundant in the Magdalenian deposits from the
late part of the 4-Wurm just before the end of the Ice Age: at that time and at the early Mesolithic it was the game
animal for many tribes. The supply began to get low during the Mesolithic, when reindeer retired to the north.

— Kurtén 1968:170

"In spite of the great variation, all the Pleistocene and living reindeer belong to the same species."[1]

Humans started hunting reindeer in the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods and humans are today the main predator in many
areas. Norway and Greenland have unbroken traditions of hunting wild reindeer from the last glacial period until the present
day. In the non-forested mountains of central Norway, such as Jotunheimen, it is still possible to find remains of stone-built
trapping pits, guiding fences and bow rests, built especially for hunting reindeer. These can, with some certainty, be dated to
the Migration Period, although it is not unlikely that they have been in use since the Stone Age.

Physical characteristics

Antlers

In most cervid species, only males grow antlers; the reindeer is the only cervid species in
which females also grow them normally.[49] Androgens play an essential role in the antler
formation of cervids. The antlerogenic genes in reindeer have more sensitivity to
androgens in comparison with other cervids.[50][51]

There is considerable variation between subspecies in the size of the antlers (e.g., they are
rather small and spindly in the northernmost subspecies),[52] but on average the bull's
antlers are the second largest of any extant deer, after those of the male moose. In the largest subspecies, the antlers of large
bulls can range up to 100 cm (39 in) in width and 135 cm (53 in) in beam length. They have the largest antlers relative to
body size among living deer species.[49] Antler size measured in number of points reflects the nutritional status of the
reindeer and climate variation of its environment.[53][54] The number of points on male reindeer
increases from birth to five years of age and remains relatively constant from then on.[55] "In
male caribou, antler mass (but not the number of tines) varies in concert with body mass."[56][57]
While antlers of male woodland caribou are typically smaller than those of male barren-ground
caribou, they can be over 1  m (3  ft 3  in) across. They are flattened, compact and relatively
dense.[18] Geist describes them as frontally emphasised, flat-beamed antlers.[34] Woodland
caribou antlers are thicker and broader than those of the barren-ground caribou and their legs
and heads are longer.[18] Quebec-Labrador male caribou antlers can be significantly larger and
wider than other woodland caribou. Central barren-ground male caribou antlers are perhaps the
most diverse in configuration and can grow to be very high and wide. Mountain caribou antlers
are typically the most massive, with the largest circumference measurements.

The antlers' main beams begin at the brow "extending posterior over the shoulders and bowing
so that the tips point forward. The prominent, palmate brow tines extend forward, over the
face."[58] The antlers typically have two separate groups of points, lower and upper.
Losing the velvet layer
Antlers begin to grow on male reindeer in March or April and on female reindeer in May or under which a new antler is
June. This process is called antlerogenesis. Antlers grow very quickly every year on the bulls. As growing, an annual process
the antlers grow, they are covered in thick velvet, filled with blood vessels and spongy in texture.
The antler velvet of the barren-ground caribou and the boreal woodland caribou is dark
chocolate brown.[59] The velvet that covers growing antlers is a highly vascularised skin. This velvet is dark brown on
woodland or barren-ground caribou and slate-grey on Peary caribou and the Dolphin-Union caribou herd.[58][60][61] Velvet
lumps in March can develop into a rack measuring more than a metre in length (3 ft) by August.[62]: 88 

When the antler growth is fully grown and hardened, the velvet is shed or rubbed off. To the Inuit, for whom the caribou is a
"culturally important keystone species", the months are named after landmarks in the caribou life cycle. For example,
amiraijaut in the Igloolik region is "when velvet falls off caribou antlers."[63]

Male reindeer use their antlers to compete with other males during the mating season. In describing woodland caribou,
SARA wrote, "During the rut, males engage in frequent and furious sparring battles with their antlers. Large males with large
antlers do most of the mating."[64] Reindeer continue to migrate until the bulls have spent their back fat.[63][65][66]

In late autumn or early winter after the rut, male reindeer lose their antlers, growing a new pair the next summer with a
larger rack than the previous year. Female reindeer keep their antlers until they calve. In the Scandinavian and Arctic Circle
populations, old bulls' antlers fall off in late December, young bulls' antlers fall off in the early spring, and cows' antlers fall
off in the summer.

When male reindeer shed their antlers in early to midwinter, the antlered cows acquire the highest ranks in the feeding
hierarchy, gaining access to the best forage areas. These cows are healthier than those without antlers.[67] Calves whose
mothers do not have antlers are more prone to disease and have a significantly higher mortality.[67] Cows in good nutritional
condition, for example, during a mild winter with good winter range quality, may grow new antlers earlier as antler growth
requires high intake.[67]

According to a respected Igloolik elder, Noah Piugaattuk, who was one of the last outpost camp leaders,[68] caribou (tuktu)
antlers[63]

...get detached every year...Young males lose the velvet from the antlers much more quickly than female caribou
even though they are not fully mature. They start to work with their antlers just as soon as the velvet starts to fall
off. The young males engage in fights with their antlers towards autumn...soon after the velvet had fallen off they
will be red, as they start to get bleached their colour changes...When the velvet starts to fall off the antler is red
because the antler is made from blood. The antler is the blood that has hardened, in fact, the core of the antler is
still bloody when the velvet starts to fall off, at least close to the base.

— Elder Noah Piugaattuk of Igloolik cited in "Tuktu — Caribou" (2002) "Canada's Polar Life

According to the Igloolik Oral History Project (IOHP), "Caribou antlers provided the Inuit with a myriad of implements,
from snow knives and shovels to drying racks and seal-hunting tools. A complex set of terms describes each part of the antler
and relates it to its various uses".[63] Currently, the larger racks of antlers are used by Inuit as materials for carving. Iqaluit-
based Jackoposie Oopakak's 1989 carving, entitled Nunali, which means ""place where people live", and which is part of the
permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada, includes a massive set of caribou antlers on which he has intricately
carved the miniaturised world of the Inuit where "Arctic birds, caribou, polar bears, seals, and whales are interspersed with
human activities of fishing, hunting, cleaning skins, stretching boots, and travelling by dog sled and kayak...from the base of
the antlers to the tip of each branch".[69]

Pelt

The colour of the fur varies considerably, both between individuals and depending on season and subspecies. Northern
populations, which usually are relatively small, are whiter, while southern populations, which typically are relatively large,
are darker. This can be seen well in North America, where the northernmost subspecies, the Peary caribou, is the whitest and
smallest subspecies of the continent, while the southernmost subspecies, the boreal woodland caribou, is the darkest and
largest.[52]

The coat has two layers of fur: a dense woolly undercoat and longer-haired overcoat consisting of hollow, air-filled
hairs.[70][Notes 4] Fur is the primary insulation factor that allows reindeer to regulate their core body temperature in relation
to their environment, the thermogradient, even if the temperature rises to 38 °C (100 °F).[71] In 1913, Dugmore noted how
the woodland caribou swim so high out of the water, unlike any other mammal, because their hollow, "air-filled, quill-like
hair" acts as a supporting "life jacket."[72]

A darker belly colour may be caused by two mutations of MC1R. They appear to be more common in domestic reindeer
herds.[73]

Heat exchange

Blood moving into the legs is cooled by blood returning to the body in a countercurrent heat exchange (CCHE), a highly
efficient means of minimising heat loss through the skin's surface. In the CCHE mechanism, in cold weather, blood vessels
are closely knotted and intertwined with arteries to the skin and appendages that carry warm blood with veins returning to
the body that carry cold blood causing the warm arterial blood to exchange heat with the cold venous blood. In this way, their
legs for example are kept cool, maintaining the core body temperature nearly 30 °C (54 °F) higher with less heat lost to the
environment. Heat is thus recycled instead of being dissipated. The "heart does not have to pump blood as rapidly in order to
maintain a constant body core temperature and thus, metabolic rate." CCHE is present in animals like reindeer, fox and
moose living in extreme conditions of cold or hot weather as a mechanism for retaining the heat in (or out of) the body.
These are countercurrent exchange systems with the same fluid, usually blood, in a circuit, used for both directions of
flow.[74]

Reindeer have specialised counter-current vascular heat exchange in their nasal passages. Temperature gradient along the
nasal mucosa is under physiological control. Incoming cold air is warmed by body heat before entering the lungs and water is
condensed from the expired air and captured before the reindeer's breath is exhaled, then used to moisten dry incoming air
and possibly be absorbed into the blood through the mucous membranes.[75] Like moose, caribou have specialised noses
featuring nasal turbinate bones that dramatically increase the surface area within the nostrils.

Hooves

The reindeer has large feet with crescent-shaped cloven hooves for walking in snow or swamps. According to the Species at
Risk Public Registry (SARA), woodland[64]

"Caribou have large feet with four toes. In addition to two small ones, called "dew claws," they have two large,
crescent-shaped toes that support most of their weight and serve as shovels when digging for food under snow.
These large concave hooves offer stable support on wet, soggy ground and on crusty snow. The pads of the hoof
change from a thick, fleshy shape in the summer to become hard and thin in the winter months, reducing the
animal's exposure to the cold ground. Additional winter protection comes from the long hair between the "toes";
it covers the pads so the caribou walks only on the horny rim of the hooves."

— SARA 2014

Reindeer hooves adapt to the season: in the summer, when the tundra is soft and wet, the footpads become sponge-like and
provide extra traction. In the winter, the pads shrink and tighten, exposing the rim of the hoof, which cuts into the ice and
crusted snow to keep it from slipping. This also enables them to dig down (an activity known as "cratering") through the
snow to their favourite food, a lichen known as reindeer lichen (Cladonia rangiferina).[76][77]

Size

The females (or "cows" as they are often called) usually measure 162–205 cm (64–81 in) in length
and weigh 80–120 kg (180–260 lb).[78] The males (or "bulls" as they are often called) are typically
larger (to an extent which varies between the different subspecies), measuring 180–214  cm (71–
84 in) in length and usually weighing 159–182  kg (351–401  lb).[78] Exceptionally large bulls have
weighed as much as 318 kg (701 lb).[78] Weight varies drastically between the seasons, with bulls
losing as much as 40% of their pre-rut weight.[79]

The shoulder height is usually 85 to 150 cm (33 to 59 in), and the tail is 14 to 20 cm (5.5 to 7.9 in)
long.

The reindeer from Svalbard are the smallest of all. They are also relatively short-legged and may
have a shoulder height of as little as 80 cm (31 in),[80] thereby following Allen's rule.

Clicking sound

The knees of many subspecies of reindeer are adapted to produce a clicking sound as they walk.[81] The sounds originate in
the tendons of the knees and may be audible from several hundred metres away. The frequency of the knee-clicks is one of a
range of signals that establish relative positions on a dominance scale among reindeer. "Specifically, loud knee-clicking is
discovered to be an honest signal of body size, providing an exceptional example of the potential for non-vocal acoustic
communication in mammals."[81] The clicking sound made by reindeer as they walk is caused by small tendons slipping over
bone protuberances (sesamoid bones) in their feet.[82][83] The sound is made when a reindeer is walking or running,
occurring when the full weight of the foot is on the ground or just after it is relieved of the weight.[72]

Eyes

A study by researchers from University College London in 2011 revealed that reindeer can see light with wavelengths as short
as 320 nm (i.e. in the ultraviolet range), considerably below the human threshold of 400 nm. It is thought that this ability
helps them to survive in the Arctic, because many objects that blend into the landscape in light visible to humans, such as
urine and fur, produce sharp contrasts in ultraviolet.[84] It has been proposed that UV flashes on power lines are responsible
for reindeer avoiding power lines because "...in darkness these animals see power lines not as dim, passive structures but,
rather, as lines of flickering light stretching across the terrain."[85]

The tapetum lucidum of Arctic reindeer eyes changes in colour from gold in summer to blue in winter to improve their vision
during times of continuous darkness, and perhaps enable them to better spot predators.[86]

Biology and behaviours

Seasonal body composition

Reindeer have developed adaptations for optimal metabolic efficiency during warm
months as well as for during cold months.[87] The body composition of reindeer varies
highly with the seasons. Of particular interest is the body composition and diet of
breeding and non-breeding females between the seasons. Breeding females have more
body mass than non-breeding females between the months of March and September with
a difference of around 10 kg (22 lb) more than non-breeding females. From November to
December, non-breeding females have more body mass than breeding females, as non-
breeding females are able to focus their energies towards storage during colder months
rather than lactation and reproduction. Body masses of both breeding and non-breeding In Sweden
females peaks in September. During the months of March through April, breeding
females have more fat mass than the non-breeding females with a difference of almost
3 kg (6.6 lb). After this, however, non-breeding females on average have a higher body fat mass than do breeding females.[88]
The environmental variations play a large part in reindeer nutrition, as winter nutrition is crucial to adult and neonatal
survival rates.[89] Lichens are a staple during the winter months as they are a readily available food source, which reduces
the reliance on stored body reserves.[88] Lichens are a crucial part of the reindeer diet; however, they are less prevalent in the
diet of pregnant reindeer compared to non-pregnant individuals. The amount of lichen in a diet is found more in non-
pregnant adult diets than pregnant individuals due to the lack of nutritional value. Although lichens are high in
carbohydrates, they are lacking in essential proteins that vascular plants provide. The amount of lichen in a diet decreases in
latitude, which results in nutritional stress being higher in areas with low lichen abundance.[90]

Reproduction and life cycle

Reindeer mate in late September to early November and the gestation period is about 228–234 days.[91] During the mating
season, bulls battle for access to cows. Two bulls will lock each other's antlers together and try to push each other away. The
most dominant bulls can collect as many as 15–20 cows to mate with. A bull will stop eating during this time and lose much
of his body fat reserves.[92]

To calve, "females travel to isolated, relatively predator-free areas such as islands in lakes, peatlands, lake-shores, or
tundra."[64] As females select the habitat for the birth of their calves, they are warier than males.[91] Dugmore noted that, in
their seasonal migrations, the herd follows a female for that reason.[72] Newborns weigh on average 6 kg (13 lb).[79] In May
or June, the calves are born.[91] After 45 days, the calves are able to graze and forage, but continue suckling until the
following autumn when they become independent from their mothers.[92]

Bulls live four years less than the cows, whose maximum longevity is about 17 years. Cows with a normal body size and who
have had sufficient summer nutrition can begin breeding anytime between the ages of 1 to 3 years.[91] When a cow has
undergone nutritional stress, it is possible for her to not reproduce for the year.[93] Dominant bulls, those with larger body
size and antler racks, inseminate more than one cow a season.

Social structure, migration and range

Some populations of North American caribou, for example many herds in the barren-
ground caribou subspecies and some woodland caribou in Ungava and Labrador, migrate
the farthest of any terrestrial mammal, travelling up to 5,000 km (3,000 mi) a year, and
covering 1,000,000 km2 (400,000 sq mi).[2][95] Other North American populations, the
boreal woodland caribou for example, are largely sedentary.[96] The European
populations are known to have shorter migrations. Island herds, such as the subspecies
R. t. pearsoni and R. t. platyrhynchus, make local movements. Migrating reindeer can be
negatively affected by parasite loads. Severely infected individuals are weak and probably The size of the antlers plays a
have shortened lifespans, but parasite levels vary between populations. Infections create significant role in establishing the
an effect known as culling: infected migrating animals are less likely to complete the hierarchy in the herd.[94]
migration.[97]

Normally travelling about 19–55 km (12–34 mi) a day while migrating, the caribou can run at speeds of 60–80 km/h (37–
50  mph).[2] Young calves can already outrun an Olympic sprinter when only 1 day old.[98] During the spring migration,
smaller herds will group together to form larger herds of 50,000 to 500,000 animals, but during autumn migrations, the
groups become smaller and the reindeer begin to mate. During winter, reindeer travel to forested areas to forage under the
snow. By spring, groups leave their winter grounds to go to the calving grounds. A reindeer can swim easily and quickly,
normally at about 6.5 km/h (4.0 mph) but, if necessary, at 10 km/h (6.2 mph) and migrating herds will not hesitate to swim
across a large lake or broad river.[2]

As an adaptation to their Arctic environment, they have lost their circadian rhythm.[99]

Ecology

Distribution and habitat

Originally, the reindeer was found in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Greenland, Russia, Mongolia and northern China north
of the 50th latitude. In North America, it was found in Canada, Alaska, and the northern conterminous United States from
Washington to Maine. In the 19th century, it was still present in southern Idaho.[2] Even in historical times, it probably
occurred naturally in Ireland, and it is believed to have lived in Scotland until the 12th
century, when the last reindeer were hunted in Orkney.[100] During the Late Pleistocene
epoch, reindeer occurred further south, such as in Nevada, Tennessee, and Alabama[101]
in North America and as far south as Spain in Europe.[94][102] Today, wild reindeer have
disappeared from these areas, especially from the southern parts, where it vanished
almost everywhere. Large populations of wild reindeer are still found in Norway, Finland,
Siberia, Greenland, Alaska and Canada.

According to Grubb (2005), Rangifer tarandus is "circumboreal in the tundra and taiga" In Sweden
from "Svalbard, Norway, Finland, Russia, Alaska (USA) and Canada including most
Arctic islands, and Greenland, south to northern Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia),[103]
Sakhalin Island, and USA (northern Idaho and Great Lakes region)." Reindeer were
introduced to, and are feral in, "Iceland, Kerguelen Islands, South Georgia Island,
Pribilof Islands, St. Matthew Island";[7] a free-ranging semi-domesticated herd is also
present in Scotland.[104]

There is strong regional variation in Rangifer herd size. There are large population
differences among individual herds and the size of individual herds has varied greatly
since 1970. The largest of all herds (in Taimyr, Russia) has varied between 400,000 and
1,000,000; the second largest herd (at the George River in Canada) has varied between In Suomussalmi, Finland
28,000 and 385,000.

While Rangifer is a widespread and numerous genus in the northern Holarctic, being present in both tundra and taiga
(boreal forest),[94] by 2013, many herds had "unusually low numbers" and their winter ranges in particular were smaller
than they used to be.[8] Caribou and reindeer numbers have fluctuated historically, but many herds are in decline across
their range.[105] This global decline is linked to climate change for northern migratory herds and industrial disturbance of
habitat for non-migratory herds.[106] Barren-ground caribou are susceptible to the effects of climate change due to a
mismatch in the phenological process, between the availability of food during the calving period.[107][108][109]

In November 2016, it was reported that more than 81,000 reindeer in Russia had died as a result of climate change. Longer
autumns, leading to increased amounts of freezing rain, created a few inches of ice over lichen, starving many reindeer.[110]

Diet

Reindeer are ruminants, having a four-chambered stomach. They mainly eat lichens in
winter, especially reindeer lichen (Cladonia rangiferina); they are the only large
mammal able to metabolise lichen owing to specialised bacteria and protozoa in their
gut.[111] They are also the only animals (except for some gastropods) in which the enzyme
lichenase, which breaks down lichenin to glucose, has been found.[112] However, they also
eat the leaves of willows and birches, as well as sedges and grasses.

Reindeer are osteophagous, they are known to gnaw and partly consume shed antlers as a
Licking salt from a roadway in
dietary supplement and in some extreme cases will cannibalise each other's antlers before
British Columbia
shedding.[113] There is also some evidence to suggest that on occasion, especially in the
spring when they are nutritionally stressed,[114] they will feed on small rodents (such as
lemmings),[115] fish (such as the Arctic char), and bird eggs.[116] Reindeer herded by the Chukchis have been known to
devour mushrooms enthusiastically in late summer.[117]

During the Arctic summer, when there is continuous daylight, reindeer change their sleeping pattern from one synchronised
with the sun to an ultradian pattern, in which they sleep when they need to digest food.[118]

Predators

A variety of predators prey heavily on reindeer, including overhunting by people in some areas, which contributes to the
decline of populations.[64]

Golden eagles prey on calves and are the most prolific hunter on the calving grounds.[119] Wolverines will take newborn
calves or birthing cows, as well as (less commonly) infirm adults.
Brown bears and polar bears prey on reindeer of all ages but, like wolverines, they are
most likely to attack weaker animals, such as calves and sick reindeer, since healthy adult
reindeer can usually outpace a bear. The grey wolf is the most effective natural predator
of adult reindeer and sometimes takes large numbers, especially during the winter. Some
wolf packs, as well as individual grizzly bears in Canada, may follow and live off of a
particular reindeer herd year-round.[46][120]

In 2020, scientists on Svalbard witnessed, and were able to film for the first time, a polar
bear attack reindeer, driving one into the ocean, where the polar bear caught up with and
killed it.[121] The same bear successfully repeated this hunting technique the next day. On Standing on snow to avoid
Svalbard, reindeer remains account for 27.3% in polar bear scats, suggesting they "may bloodsucking insects
be a significant part of the polar bear's diet in that area".[122]

Additionally, as carrion, reindeer may be scavenged opportunistically by foxes, hawks and ravens.

Bloodsucking insects, such as mosquitoes, black flies, the reindeer warble fly or reindeer botfly (Hypoderma tarandi) and
the reindeer nose botfly (Cephenemyia trompe),[123][124] are a plague to reindeer during the summer and can cause enough
stress to inhibit feeding and calving behaviours.[125] An adult reindeer will lose perhaps about 1 l (0.22 imp gal; 0.26 US gal)
of blood to biting insects for every week it spends in the tundra.[98] The population numbers of some of these predators is
influenced by the migration of reindeer. Tormenting insects keep caribou on the move, searching for windy areas like hilltops
and mountain ridges, rock reefs, lakeshore and forest openings, or snow patches that offer respite from the buzzing horde.
Gathering in large herds is another strategy that caribou use to block insects.[126]

Reindeer are good swimmers, and in one case, the entire body of a reindeer was found in the stomach of a Greenland shark
(Somniosus microcephalus), a species found in the far northern Atlantic.[127]

Other threats

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) commonly carry meningeal worm or brainworm, a nematode parasite that causes
reindeer, moose (Alces alces), elk (Cervus canadensis), and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) to develop fatal neurological
symptoms[128][129][130] which include a loss of fear of humans. White-tailed deer that carry this worm are partly immune to
it.[79]

Changes in climate and habitat beginning in the 20th century have expanded range overlap between white-tailed deer and
caribou, increasing the frequency of infection within the reindeer population. This increase in infection is a concern for
wildlife managers. Human activities, such as "clear-cutting forestry practices, forest fires, and the clearing for agriculture,
roadways, railways, and power lines," favour the conversion of habitats into the preferred habitat of the white-tailed deer –
"open forest interspersed with meadows, clearings, grasslands, and riparian flatlands."[79] Towards the end of the Soviet
Union, there was increasingly open admission from the Soviet government that reindeer numbers were being negatively
affected by human activity, and that this must be remediated especially by supporting reindeer breeding by native
herders.[131]

Conservation

Current status

While overall widespread and numerous, some reindeer subspecies are rare and two have already become extinct.[13][14] As
of 2015, the IUCN has classified the reindeer as Vulnerable due to an observed population decline of 40% over the last +25
years.[2] According to IUCN, Rangifer tarandus as a species is not endangered because of its overall large population and its
widespread range.[2]

In North America, R. t. dawsoni[132][14][13] and R. t. eogroenlandicus are extinct, R. t. pearyi is endangered, R. t. caribou is
designated as threatened and some individual populations are endangered. While the subspecies R. t. granti and R. t.
groenlandicus are not designated as threatened, many individual herds — including some of the largest — are declining and
there is much concern at the local level.[133]
Rangifer tarandus is endangered in Canada in regions such as southeastern British Columbia at the Canada–United States
border, along the Columbia, Kootenay and Kootenai Rivers and around Kootenay Lake. Rangifer tarandus is now
considered extirpated in the contiguous United States, including Idaho and Washington.

There is strong regional variation in Rangifer herd size. By 2013, many caribou herds in North America had "unusually low
numbers" and their winter ranges in particular were smaller than they used to be.[133] Caribou numbers have fluctuated
historically, but many herds are in decline across their range.[134] There are many factors contributing to the decline in
numbers.[135]

Boreal woodland caribou (COSEWIC designation as threatened)

Ongoing human development of their habitat has caused populations of woodland caribou to disappear from their original
southern range. In particular, caribou were extirpated in many areas of eastern North America in the beginning of the 20th
century. Woodland caribou were designated as threatened in 2002.[17] Environment Canada reported in 2011 that there were
approximately 34,000 boreal woodland caribou in 51 ranges remaining in Canada (Environment Canada, 2011b).[18]
Professor Marco Musiani of the University of Calgary said in a statement that "The woodland caribou is already an
endangered species in southern Canada and the United States...[The] warming of the planet means the disappearance of
their critical habitat in these regions. Caribou need undisturbed lichen-rich environments and these types of habitats are
disappearing."[136]

Woodland caribou have disappeared from most of their original southern range and were designated as threatened in 2002
by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, (COSEWIC).[17] Environment Canada reported in 2011
that there were approximately 34 000 boreal woodland caribou in 51 ranges remaining in Canada.(Environment Canada,
2011b).[18] "According to Geist, the "woodland caribou is highly endangered throughout its distribution right into
Ontario."[7]

In 2002 the Atlantic-Gaspésie population of the woodland caribou was designated as endangered by COSEWIC. The small
isolated population of 200 animals was at risk from predation and habitat loss.

Peary caribou (COSEWIC designation as endangered)

In 1991 COSEWIC assigned "endangered status" to the Banks Island and High Arctic populations of Peary caribou. The Low
Arctic population of Peary caribou was designated as threatened. By 2004 all three were designated as "endangered."[132]

Numbers have declined by about 72% over the last three generations, mostly because of catastrophic die-off likely
related to severe icing episodes. The ice covers the vegetation and caribou starve. Voluntary restrictions on
hunting by local people are in place, but have not stopped population declines. Because of the continuing decline
and expected changes in long-term weather patterns, this subspecies is at imminent risk of extinction.

— [132]

Relationship with humans

The reindeer has an important economic role for all circumpolar peoples, including the
Sámi, the Swedes, the Norwegians, the Finns and the Northwestern Russians in Europe,
the Nenets, the Khanty, the Evenks, the Yukaghirs, the Chukchi and the Koryaks in Asia
and the Inuit in North America. It is believed that domestication started between the
Bronze and Iron Ages. Siberian reindeer owners also use the reindeer to ride on (Siberian
reindeer are larger than their Scandinavian relatives). For breeders, a single owner may
own hundreds or even thousands of animals. The numbers of Russian and Scandinavian
reindeer herders have been drastically reduced since 1990. The sale of fur and meat is an
important source of income. Reindeer were introduced into Alaska near the end of the
19th century; they interbred with the native caribou subspecies there. Reindeer herders Pulling a sled in Russia
on the Seward Peninsula have experienced significant losses to their herds from animals
(such as wolves) following the wild caribou during their migrations.
Reindeer meat is popular in the Scandinavian countries. Reindeer meatballs are sold canned. Sautéed reindeer is the best-
known dish in Sápmi. In Alaska and Finland, reindeer sausage is sold in supermarkets and grocery stores. Reindeer meat is
very tender and lean. It can be prepared fresh, but also dried, salted and hot- and cold-smoked. In addition to meat, almost
all of the internal organs of reindeer can be eaten, some being traditional dishes.[137] Furthermore, Lapin Poron liha, fresh
reindeer meat completely produced and packed in Finnish Sápmi, is protected in Europe with PDO classification.[138][139]

Reindeer antlers are powdered and sold as an aphrodisiac, or as a nutritional or medicinal supplement, to Asian markets.

The blood of the caribou was supposedly mixed with alcohol as drink by hunters and loggers in colonial Quebec to counter
the cold. This drink is now enjoyed without the blood as a wine and whiskey drink known as Caribou.[140][141]

Indigenous North Americans

Caribou are still hunted in Greenland and in North America. In the traditional lifestyles of some of Canada's Inuit peoples
and northern First Nations peoples, Alaska Natives, and the Kalaallit of Greenland, caribou is an important source of food,
clothing, shelter and tools.

The Caribou Inuit are inland-dwelling Inuit in present-day Nunavut's Kivalliq Region (formerly
the Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories), Canada. They subsisted on caribou year-round,
eating dried caribou meat in the winter. The Ihalmiut are Caribou Inuit that followed the
Qamanirjuaq barren-ground caribou herd.[142]

There is an Inuit saying in the Kivalliq Region:[111]

The caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf who keeps the caribou strong.

— Kivalliq region

Elder Chief of Koyukuk and chair for the Western Arctic Caribou Herd Working Group Benedict
Jones, or Kʼughtoʼoodenoolʼoʼ, represents the Middle Yukon River, Alaska. His grandmother
was a member of the Caribou Clan, who travelled with the caribou as a means to survive. In
1939, they were living their traditional lifestyle at one of their hunting camps in Koyukuk near An early 20th century Inuit
the location of what is now the Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge. His grandmother made a pair parka made of caribou skin
of new mukluks in one day. Kʼughtoʼoodenoolʼoʼ recounted a story told by an elder, who
"worked on the steamboats during the gold rush days out on the Yukon." In late August, the
caribou migrated from the Alaska Range up north to Huslia, Koyukuk and the Tanana area. One year when the steamboat
was unable to continue, they ran into a caribou herd estimated to number 1 million animals, migrating across the Yukon.
"They tied up for seven days waiting for the caribou to cross. They ran out of wood for the steamboats, and had to go back
down 40 miles to the wood pile to pick up some more wood. On the tenth day, they came back and they said there was still
caribou going across the river night and day."[143]

The Gwich'in, an indigenous people of northwestern Canada and northeastern Alaska, have been dependent on the
international migratory Porcupine caribou herd for millennia.[144]: 142  To them caribou — vadzaih — is the cultural symbol
and a keystone subsistence species of the Gwich'in, just as the buffalo is to the Plains Indians.[145] Innovative language
revitalisation projects are underway to document the language and to enhance the writing and translation skills of younger
Gwich'in speakers. In one project, lead research associate and fluent speaker Gwich'in elder Kenneth Frank works with
linguists who include young Gwich'in speakers affiliated with the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska
in Fairbanks to document traditional knowledge of caribou anatomy. The main goal of the research was to "elicit not only
what the Gwich'in know about caribou anatomy, but how they see caribou and what they say and believe about caribou that
defines themselves, their dietary and nutritional needs, and their subsistence way of life."[145] Elders have identified at least
150 descriptive Gwich'in names for all of the bones, organs and tissues. Associated with the caribou's anatomy are not just
descriptive Gwich'in names for all of the body parts, including bones, organs, and tissues, but also "an encyclopedia of
stories, songs, games, toys, ceremonies, traditional tools, skin clothing, personal names and surnames, and a highly
developed ethnic cuisine."[145] In the 1980s, Gwich'in Traditional Management Practices were established to protect the
Porcupine caribou, upon which the Gwich'in people depend. They "codified traditional principles of caribou management
into tribal law" which include "limits on the harvest of caribou and procedures to be followed in processing and transporting
caribou meat" and limits on the number of caribou to be taken per hunting trip.[146]
Indigenous Eurasians

Reindeer herding has been vital for the subsistence of several Eurasian nomadic indigenous peoples living in the circumpolar
Arctic zone such as the Sámi, Nenets, and Komi.[147] Reindeer are used to provide renewable sources and reliable
transportation. In Mongolia, the Dukha are known as the reindeer people. They are credited as one of the world's earliest
domesticators. The Dukha diet consists mainly of reindeer dairy products.[148]

Reindeer husbandry is common in Fennoscandia (Norway, Sweden, Finland) and the Russian North. In Norway and
Sweden, reindeer ownership is restricted to the Sámi people.[149] In some human groups such as the Eveny, wild reindeer
and domesticated reindeer are treated as different kinds of beings.[150]

Husbandry

The reindeer is the only successfully semi-domesticated deer on a large scale in the
world. Reindeer in northern Fennoscandia (northern Norway, Sweden and Finland) as
well in the Kola Peninsula and Yakutia in Russia, are all semi-wild domestic reindeer
(Rangifer tarandus forma domesticus), ear-marked by their owners. Some reindeer in
the area are truly domesticated, mostly used as draught animals (nowadays commonly
for tourist entertainment and races, traditionally important for the nomadic Sámi).
Domesticated reindeer have also been used for milk, e.g., in Norway.

There are only two genetically pure populations of wild reindeer in Northern Europe: A team pulling a sled in the
wild mountain reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) that live in central Norway, with a Arkhangelsk Governorate of Russia,
population in 2007 of between 6,000 and 8,400 animals;[151] and wild Finnish forest late 19th-century photochrom
reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) that live in central and eastern Finland and in
Russian Karelia, with a population of about 4,350, plus 1,500 in Arkhangelsk Oblast and
2,500 in Komi.[152]

DNA analysis indicates that reindeer were independently domesticated in Fennoscandia

and Western Russia (and possibly Eastern Russia).[153] Reindeer have been herded for
centuries by several Arctic and subarctic peoples, including the Sámi, the Nenets and the
Yakuts. They are raised for their meat, hides and antlers and, to a lesser extent, for milk
and transportation. Reindeer are not considered fully domesticated, as they generally
roam free on pasture grounds. In traditional nomadic herding, reindeer herders migrate
with their herds between coastal and inland areas according to an annual migration route
and herds are keenly tended. However, reindeer were not bred in captivity, though they Milking in Western Finnmark,
were tamed for milking as well as for use as draught animals or beasts of burden. Norway in the 19th century
Domesticated reindeer are shorter-legged and heavier than their wild counterparts. In
Scandinavia, management of reindeer herds is primarily conducted through siida, a
traditional Sámi form of cooperative association.[154]

The use of reindeer for transportation is common among the nomadic peoples of northern Russia (but not anymore in
Scandinavia). Although a sled drawn by 20 reindeer will cover no more than 20–25 km (12–16 mi) a day (compared to 7–
10 km (4.3–6.2 mi) on foot, 70–80 km (43–50 mi) by a dog sled loaded with cargo and 150–180 km (93–112 mi) by a dog
sled without cargo), it has the advantage that the reindeer will discover their own food, while a pack of 5–7 sled dogs requires
10–14 kg (22–31 lb) of fresh fish a day.[155]

The use of reindeer as semi-domesticated livestock in Alaska was introduced in the late 19th century by the United States
Revenue Cutter Service, with assistance from Sheldon Jackson, as a means of providing a livelihood for Alaska Natives.[156]
Reindeer were imported first from Siberia and later also from Norway. A regular mail run in Wales, Alaska, used a sleigh
drawn by reindeer.[157] In Alaska, reindeer herders use satellite telemetry to track their herds, using online maps and
databases to chart the herd's progress.

Domesticated reindeer are mostly found in northern Fennoscandia and Russia, with a herd of approximately 150–170
reindeer living around the Cairngorms region in Scotland. The last remaining wild tundra reindeer in Europe are found in
portions of southern Norway.[158] The International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR), a circumpolar organisation, was
established in 2005 by the Norwegian government. ICR represents over 20 indigenous reindeer peoples and about 100,000
reindeer herders in nine different national states.[159] In Finland, there are about 6,000 reindeer herders, most of whom
keep small herds of less than 50 reindeer to raise additional income. With 185,000 reindeer (as of 2001), the industry
produces 2,000 metric tons (2,200 short tons) of reindeer meat and generates 35 million euros annually. 70% of the meat is
sold to slaughterhouses. Reindeer herders are eligible for national and EU agricultural subsidies, which constituted 15% of
their income. Reindeer herding is of central importance for the local economies of small communities in sparsely populated
rural Sápmi.[160]

Currently, many reindeer herders are heavily dependent on diesel fuel to provide for electric generators and snowmobile
transportation, although solar photovoltaic systems can be used to reduce diesel dependency.[161]

Miniatures of reindeer from Olaus Magnus's 1539 Carta Marina

Milking Crossing frozen Drawing a wagon Drawing a one-man sled Reindeer-mounted

water cavalry

History

Reindeer hunting by humans has a very long history and wild reindeer "may well be the species of single greatest importance
in the entire anthropological literature on hunting."[19]

Both Aristotle and Theophrastus have short accounts – probably based on the same source – of an ox-sized deer species,
named tarandos, living in the land of the Bodines in Scythia, which was able to change the colour of its fur to obtain
camouflage. The latter is probably a misunderstanding of the seasonal change in reindeer fur colour. The descriptions have
been interpreted as being of reindeer living in the southern Ural Mountains in c. 350 BC.[24]

A deer-like animal described by Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico (chapter
6.26) from the Hercynian Forest in the year 53 BC is most certainly to be interpreted as a
reindeer:[24][162]

There is an ox shaped like a stag. In the middle of its forehead a single horn grows
between its ears, taller and straighter than the animal horns with which we are
familiar. At the top this horn spreads out like the palm of a hand or the branches of a
tree. The females are of the same form as the males, and their horns are the same
shape and size.

According to Olaus Magnus's Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus – printed in Rome in the

The tragelaphus or deer-
year 1555 – Gustav I of Sweden sent 10 reindeer to Albert I, Duke of Prussia, in the year 1533. It
goat
may be these animals that Conrad Gessner had seen or heard of.

During World War II, the Soviet Army used reindeer as pack animals to transport food,
ammunition and post from Murmansk to the Karelian front and bring wounded soldiers, pilots and equipment back to the
base. About 6,000 reindeer and more than 1,000 reindeer herders were part of the operation. Most herders were Nenets,
who were mobilised from the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, but reindeer herders from the Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Komi
regions also participated.[163][164]

Santa Claus

Around the world, public interest in reindeer peaks during the Christmas season.[165] According to folklore, Santa Claus's
sleigh is pulled by flying reindeer. These reindeer were first named in the 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas".

Mythology and art

Among the Inuit, there is a story of the origin of the caribou:[166]

Once upon a time there were no caribou on the earth. But there was a man
who wished for caribou, and he cut a hole deep in the ground, and up this hole
came caribou, many caribou. The caribou came pouring out, until the earth
was almost covered with them. And when the man thought there were caribou
enough for mankind, he closed up the hole again. Thus the caribou came up
on earth.

— [166] Relaxing after pulling Santa's sleigh

at the switching on of Christmas
Inuit artists from the barren lands, incorporate depictions of caribou — and items made lights in Scotland
from caribou antlers and skin — in carvings, drawings, prints and sculpture.

Contemporary Canadian artist Brian Jungen, of Dunne-za First Nations ancestry, commissioned an installation entitled "The
ghosts on top of my head" (2010–11) in Banff, Alberta, which depicts the antlers of caribou, elk and moose.[167]

I remember a story my Uncle Jack told me – a Dunne-Za creation story about how animals once ruled the earth
and were ten times their size and that got me thinking about scale and using the idea of the antler, which is a
thing that everyone is scared of, and making it into something more approachable and abstract.

— Brian Jungen, 2011[167]

Tomson Highway, CM[168] is a Canadian and Cree playwright, novelist, and children's author, who was born in a remote area
north of Brochet, Manitoba.[168] His father, Joe Highway, was a caribou hunter. His 2001 children's book entitled Caribou
Song/atíhko níkamon was selected as one of the "Top 10 Children's Books" by the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.
The young protagonists of Caribou Song, like Tomson himself, followed the caribou herd with their families.

Heraldry and symbols

Several Norwegian municipalities have one or more reindeer depicted in their coats-of-arms:
Eidfjord, Porsanger, Rendalen, Tromsø, Vadsø and Vågå. The historic province of Västerbotten
in Sweden has a reindeer in its coat of arms. The present Västerbotten County has very different
borders and uses the reindeer combined with other symbols in its coat-of-arms. The city of Piteå
also has a reindeer. The logo for Umeå University features three reindeer.[169]

The Canadian 25-cent coin or "quarter" features a depiction of a caribou on one face. The
caribou is the official provincial animal of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and appears on
the coat of arms of Nunavut. A caribou statue was erected at the centre of the Beaumont-Hamel
Newfoundland Memorial, marking the spot in France where hundreds of soldiers from
Newfoundland were killed and wounded in World War I. There is a replica in Bowring Park in Coat of arms of Kuusamo
St. John's, Newfoundland's capital city.[170]

Two municipalities in Finland have reindeer motifs in their coats-of-arms: Kuusamo[171] has a running reindeer and
Inari[172] has a fish with reindeer antlers.

See also
Alaska Reindeer Service
Caribou herds and populations in Canada
Rangifer (constellation)
Rangifer (journal)
Reindeer Police

Notes
1. The Integrated Taxonomic Information System list Wilson and Geist on their experts panel.
 2. Banfield rejected this classification in 1961. However, Geist and others considered it valid.
3. The George River and Leaf River caribou herds are classified as woodland caribou, but are also migratory, with tundra
as their primary range.
4. According to Inuit elder Marie Kilunik of the Aivilingmiut, Canadian Inuit preferred the caribou skins from caribou taken in
the late summer or fall, when their coats had thickened. They used it for winter clothing "because each hair is hollow and
fills with air trapping heat."(Marie Kilunik, Aivilingmiut, Crnkovich 1990:116).

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