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The only deer where both sexes grow antlers, because equality means everyone gets stabbed.
means A large North American reindeer that migrates in massive herds across tundra and forest.
from Borrowed from French, which took it from Mi'kmaq (or a closely related Algonquian language) — possibly from a word meaning something like 'snow-shoveler,' describing how the animal paws through snow to reach the moss and lichen beneath.
- same as reindeer
- caribou is wild, reindeer is domesticated, species identical
- hoof trick
- clicking ankles let herds hear each other in whiteouts
- migration distance
- some travel over 3000 miles yearly, longest of any land mammal
- eye color
- their eyes turn blue in winter to catch dim light