#0094 · 🦊 mammals

Caribou

🇳🇱 Kariboe ·Rangifer tarandus

VUvulnerable 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bering Land Bridge National Preserve · CC BY 4.0
2. © Amanda Graham · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Anthony B. Zerafa · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Игорь Поспелов · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Mikael Nyman · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Thomas Fuhrmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © wild_vision_photography · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus ), also known as caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. This includes both sedentary and migratory populations. Rangifer herd size varies greatly in different geographic regions. t. sibiricus ) in Russia is the largest wild reindeer herd in the world, with numbers varying between 400,000...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 13,101iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
13,101 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.