Caribou - Alaska Postage 3 Ring Binder

A 10-Nugget postage stamp issued by a imaginary independent nation of Alaska. It features a bull Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) superimposed on a Caribou pelt. Text reading, "Alaska," "POSTAGE 10 NUGGETS," "Caribou," and "Rangifer tarandus" also appears. On the reverse side you will find a larger instance of the same image as depicted on the postage stamp. There are two places for you to customize this product by adding your own text on the front, and another on the spine. The Caribou, known as the reindeer outside of North America, is a deer of the Arctic and Subarctic.The Inuit word for the species "tuktu" means - deer that never stops moving. Caribou are always on the move, going north to calve, heading for the winter grounds, and south in the summer. Uniquely among deer, both genders grow antlers, though these are larger in the males and there are a few populations where females lack them completely. Caribou hunting and herding of semi-domesticated reindeer (for meat, hides, antlers, milk and transportation) are important to several Arctic and Subarctic people. Even far outside its range, the caribou/reindeer is well known due to the myth, probably originating in early 19th century America, in which Santa Claus's sleigh is pulled by flying reindeer, a popular secular element of Christmas. In actual Lapland, reindeer would pull a pulk (Sledge).