that’s a reindeer. completely different animal, despite the name.
also, the problem with reindeer isn’t really that you risk hitting one, but that you get swarmed by hundreds of them taking up the entire road. they’re not afraid of vehicles since they are often around people, so their reaction to oncoming traffic is… nothing. they don’t even freeze, they just continue what they were doing.
sure, taxonomically, but it looks and behaves very differently. just like i wouldn’t like to call a moose a deer, despite them being related.
Absolutely; where I’m from nobody would understand you if you referred a moose/caribou as a deer. Hence your helpful clarification.
In in the UP, first time hunters often don’t know the difference between caribou and deer.
The supply shops find out when the hunters come back asking for help because the buck they bagged is too heavy to move. (They’re 500 lbs or more instead of the 100-200 lbs of a white tail)
okay then they are definitely not the same species because reindeer max out at like 150kg.
edit: north american caribou. right.
The size difference is wild. Then moose are absolutely huge.
Yup moved to moose country later on and are super tall. I skidded to a stop in front of one on a dark night and it was facing away and just looked like a tall person standing in the road.
It looked back at us, then climbed straight up a quite steep embankment into the woods.
The dangers in hitting them is that you knock the legs out from under them and they land on your roof and crush you.
huh your meese must be larger than swedish ones, what we’re taught will happen is that they go through the windscreen
Reindeer and caribou are different species. Why is it lumping them together?
Reindeer and caribou are the same species, Rangifer tarandus.
There are actually different ways of classifying them. Some including them all under R. tarandus, others have as many as 6 species with a cumulative 19 extant subspecies. It seems to be an evolving area of study.
edit: I swear that pun was unintended
Are they domesticated, or is there some other reason they’re not afraid of humans ? Because we have tons of actual deers here (France) that you can easily see hanging out near roads at dawn or at dusk, but they’re definitely afraid of humans and cars
reindeer herding is one of the main occupations of the sami of northern scandinavia. almost all of them are domesticated.
reindeer herding is one of the main occupations of the sami of northern scandinavia
As seen in the documentary, ‘Frozen’.
Oh yeah that makes sense then. The semi-wild cows of Corsica (they are domesticated and actively exploited for milk/meat but don’t have dedicated pastures, they are left to roam and graze wherever they want) are also an absolute menace on the roads
that seems to be pretty much the same situation then, except while there seems to be around 30k corsican cows there are around 250k reindeer in sweden alone.
That is not a deer but a reindeer or caribou.
A deer (pl.: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family). Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), …
So, yes, it is a deer. Because caribou are a type of deer.
It would be like seeing a photo of a pigeon that someone called a “bird”, and saying “that’s not a bird, it’s a pigeon”.
except when people say deer they mean a generic deer, they don’t mean reindeer, they don’t mean elk, they don’t mean moose.
it’s like someone saying “i hit a bird last night” when they hit a fucking ostrich
reindeer rizz rule?
I’m either about to get a side quest or into a boss battle
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I didn’t know they do this. Would take my breath away if I saw that while driving😆
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Imaging an uncontacted tribe seeing this shit.
Ohhh this kinda reminds me of the csodaszarvas from hungarian mythology, it is often depicted as a deer with glowing/golden antlers.
Is this a valheim reference?
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