While they won’t be pulling Santa’s sleigh anytime soon, Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) objectively ...

Norway's diverse wildlife includes the Svalbard reindeer, Norwegian red deer, sea slug species like Aplysia punctata and Akera bullata, Arctic fox, Atlantic puffin, and walrus. These animals have ...

Reindeer vary in size but all types are surprisingly small. The largest subspecies of reindeer – the woodland caribou – is about 1.2m at the shoulder, whereas the thickset body and dumpy legs ...

All reindeer and caribou species currently fall under the same species, Rangifer tarandus, and in one of more than a dozen different subspecies. The subspecies native to North America are called ...

Though they belong to the same family, confusingly called “deer,” many different subspecies and groups are included in it. In this article, we’ll cover the main differences between reindeer ...

There are three extinct subspecies of reindeer now, with at least one wild population replaced by domestic reindeer. We also have to assume Santa’s reindeer are fully domesticated, in order for ...