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Where to find: More than 30 herds of caribou are spread across mainland Alaska. Your best chance for seeing them are in Denali National Park and along the Denali Highway, the Richardson Highway near Paxson, and the Glenn Highway near Eureka.

Sometimes they're seen in the Kenai River flats in the winter.

Alaska Highway travelers may see caribou between Tok and Canada, and they're frequently found along the Dalton Highway, which stretches across the tundra of Arctic Alaska.

Caribou live on the tundra and in the taiga, or short-tree forests.

They can also be found next to the musk oxen at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage.

Tips: Both male and female caribou grow antlers, which the caribou use for protection and to shove snow aside so the animals can reach the moss and lichen.

Reindeer are the domesticated brothers and sisters of caribou. Herders in Nome sometimes have reindeer to show to tourists, and a farm on Bodenburg Loop south of Palmer raises reindeer.

Reindeer meat can be bought in some stores, and reindeer sausage is often offered in restaurants and at hotdog stands.