Project on Natural Sciences

Description of vertebrate animal: Reindeer

Vagelis Tsaklas

ST2

3rd Primary School of Agia Paraskevi

January 2015

SYSTEMATIC CLASSIFICATION

Kingdom: Animals (Animalia) Phylum: chordoma

(Mammalia) Order: Artiodactyla(Artiodactyla) Family: Cervids(Cervidae) Gender: Reindeer(Chordata) The classes:

Mammals(Rangifer) Genre: R. tarandus

RAINDEERS

HABITATREINDEERS LIVE IN SCANDINAVIA, IN THE

EUROPEAN RUSSIA, IN NORTH RUSSIA,

IN THE ASIAN RUSSIA, IN NORTH AMERICA,

GREENLAND, IN CANADA AND IN ALASKA.

DIET

FEED ON:•GRASS•FYTRES•LICHENS

•They are

  herbivores

ENEMIES

WOLF

HYENAS

ENEMIES

Humans

Grizzly bear

Special Characteristics

• Ηorns

• Lives in arctic areas

SOURCES

• WIKIPEDIA

• ENCYCLOPEDIA NEA DOMI

• INTERNET