3896 x 3260 px | 33 x 27,6 cm | 13 x 10,9 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1 settembre 2010
Altre informazioni:
The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as the caribou in North America, is a deer from the Arctic and Subarctic, including both resident and migratory populations. While overall widespread and numerous, some of its subspecies are rare and one (or two, depending on taxonomy) has already gone extinct. The reindeer varies considerably in colour and size, both genders also grow antlers, though these are larger in the males and there are a few populations where females lack them completely. Hunting of wild reindeer and herding of semi-domesticated reindeer (for meat, hides, antlers, milk and transportation) are important to several Arctic and Subarctic people. Even far outside its range, the reindeer is well known due to the myth in which Santa Claus's sleigh is pulled by flying reindeer, a popular secular element of the Christian holiday of Christmas
