REindeer Vs. Cariboo ?

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how do they differ ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

cariboo can't fly (yet)

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Caribou is Pixies-related.

But anyway, according to this site:

"In Europe, caribou are called reindeer, but in Alaska and Canada only the domestic forms are called reindeer. All caribou and reindeer throughout the world are considered to be the same species..."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"Princess Caraboo" sucked.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

elton john never released a record called "reindeer."

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

which is better?

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The actual difference between a reindeer and a caribou is only that a reindeer is domesticated. Had that little reindeer been born in the wild it would have been called a caribou, and never would have had to worry about reindeer games and flying and such.

― B, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

They're all Rangifer tarandus really.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

Cool, hopeful article on the planned return of reindeer to the Karelian peat bogs
(Also: 'deep mapping' sounds like something I'd be into)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/23/finland-ecology-reindeer-deep-mapping-folklore-entwined-rewilding-karelia-peatland-forest

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 23 December 2024 20:29 (nine months ago)

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