Reindeer of the Frozen North

Female reindeer are unique among deer because they can grow antlers.

Reindeer live across Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.

The word caribou comes from a Mi'kmaq word meaning snow shoveler.

Osborn's caribou is the largest subspecies of reindeer anywhere.

The Svalbard reindeer is the smallest subspecies of reindeer.

About 20,000 mountain reindeer still live in the mountains of Norway.

Sámi villages in Sweden manage about 250,000 reindeer in herds.

Russia manages 19 herds totaling about 940,000 animals.

The Taimyr herd varies between 400,000 and 1,000,000 wild reindeer.

Reindeer are the only successfully semi-domesticated deer on large scale.

Arctic people used reindeer for food, clothing, shelter since prehistoric times.

In traditional Christmas legends, reindeer pull Santa Claus's sleigh through the sky.

The oldest undoubted Rangifer fossil is from Omsk, Russia.