Caribou (Rangifer tarandus)

Caribou refers to any of several North American subspecies, ecotypes, populations, and herds of the species ''Rangifer tarandus''. In North America caribou range in size from the smallest, the Peary caribou, to the largest, the boreal woodland caribou. The North American range of caribou extends from Alaska, through the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, into the boreal forest and south through the Canadian Rockies and the Columbia and Selkirk Mountains. Barren-ground, Porcupine and Peary.. more