What is another name for caribou?
Migratory woodland caribou mountain ecotype and the forest-dwelling ecotype (boreal woodland caribou). In British Columbia caribou are classified into three ecotypes – mountain, northern and boreal. In Ontario caribou are classified into two ecotypes – forest-dwelling woodland caribou and forest-tundra woodland caribou. In Newfoundland and Labrador, woodland caribou are classified as part of the boreal population of caribou, which is subdivided into two ecotypes: the migratory forest-tundra and the sedentary forest-dwelling ecotype. The species taxonomic name "Rangifer tarandus" (reindeer or caribou) was defined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The subspecies taxonomic name, "Rangifer tarandus caribou" was defined by Gmelin in 1788. According to
Caribou Hide, British Columbia Caribou Hide, British Columbia Caribou Hide, also known as Metsantan, is a former community of the Sekani people in the Spatsizi Plateau region of the Stikine Country in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, just northwest of Metsantan Lake. The name derives from a "white man's" term for the Sekani, "the Caribou Hide people", with this place being named accordingly, because this was their first settlement in this region . The name was conferred on this place in 1944, first appearing on maps in 1933, and rescinded in 1982. Another designation for this place was Metsantan, which "Caribou Hide" replaced in 1952.