What’s the deal with reindeer and caribou?

I must have been thinking out loud with Alexa eavesdropping, because she interrupted my train of thought with, “I can’t find any deals on reindeer and caribou.”

Let the holiday games begin.

Reindeer, as they’re known in Europe (from Old Norse) are called caribou (derived from the Mi’kmaq word γalipu) in North America. According to Wikipedia, both refer to “a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. This includes both sedentary and migratory populations.”

Are reindeer and caribou identical cousins?

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