Reindeer, or caribou, are members of the deer family ... It spans from Alaska to Canada to Russia to Greenland to Iceland. Winters in this area are long and dry, with months of complete darkness ...

HABITAT: The Selkirk population of caribou favors old-growth spruce-fir and cedar-hemlock forests. RANGE: Extirpated from nearly the entire United States, mountain caribou now comprise an extremely ...

Caribou are larger, wild and live in northern North America and Greenland. Reindeer, on the other hand, are found in Eurasia and have been domesticated for 2,000 years. Fast fact: caribou are the ...