🦌Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only representative of the genus Rangifer. More recent studies suggest the splitting of reindeer and caribou. "All caribou and reindeer throughout the world are considered to be the same species, but there are 7 subspecies."
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 101 kg
- Body length
- 2.21 m
- Shoulder height
- 1.22 m
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 22 years
Everything we know about the Reindeer
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass101 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 101 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length2.21 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Shoulder height1.22 mat the shoulderDetails ↓Hide ↑
NPS: "Mature caribou stand approximately four feet tall at the shoulder, eight feet in length and weigh from 130 to over 350 pounds." 4 ft = 1.22 m; caribou and reindeer are the same species, Rangifer tarandus. Corroborated by ADW (Joly & Shefferly 2000): "shoulder heights of up to 120 cm".
Source: US National Park Service, 'Caribou', Denali National Park & Preserve, https://www.nps.gov/dena/learn/nature/caribou.htm · see citation
Brain mass289 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan22 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 22 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length5 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.1 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation223 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 228 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range2,771 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.43 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l101 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Reindeer yet: top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyCervidae
- ›genusRangifer
- ›speciesRangifer tarandus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- familyCervidae
- genusRangifer
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderRuminantia
- infraorderPecora
- familyCervidae
- genusRangifer
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