White Reindeer
White Reindeer
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| ホワイトカリブー | |||
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| AKA | White Caribou
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| Romaji | howaito karibuu
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| Debut | Kemono Friends Pavilion | ||
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| Scientific Name | Rangifer tarandus
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| Distribution | North America, Eurasia
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| Diet | Herbivore
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| Avg. Lifespan | 15-16 years
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| Read More | Reindeer
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| White Reindeer | Pavilion | KF3 | Gallery |
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The White Reindeer is a type of mammal Friend first revealed in a piece of merchandise. In 2019, she made her first Kemono Friends media debut in Kemono Friends Pavilion.
Appearance
Being a variation of Reindeer, White Reindeer shares much in common with her. Her white hair is in the same twintails style, with pink and white bows tying them. Her antlers are lighter, but appear the same shape. Her fur-trimmed coat is also white, with a silver bell attached to the collar. She wears pink gloves and a short brown skirt under the coat. Her double-sided spear has the traditional animal-based antler shape of other similar friends, and is white with pink tips. She wears white tights under white fur-trimmed boots with brown laces and soles.
Series Appearances
| Media | Role | |
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| 2018 | Kemono Friends Pavilion | ↪ Observable character |
| 2019 | Kemono Friends 3 | ↪ Minor character, playable |
In Real Life
While reindeer are most typically brown or grey in color, they can bear white fur for several different reasons. There are several genetic mutations which can cause a loss of pigmentation: leucism entails a partial loss of pigmentation, which can affect areas such as the skin and fur, and the better-known albinism entails an absence of the dark pigment called melanin. There is also a particular reindeer subspecies found in the Canadian Arctic, the peary caribou, which is known to have a largely white coat.
Reindeer are special among deer as both sexes grow antlers; males begin in to grow them in March and April while females start in May or June. The males use them to fight over the right to mate and they will shed them after the mating season in late autumn. Females will keep their antlers for a little longer until just before growing a new pair allowing them to use them to dig into the snow and ground to find nutritious roots and other food.
The reindeer was domesticated long ago by the Sámi peoples indigenous to a region now split amongst Finland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. It was and still is very important to the survival of these peoples, as they provide fur, meat and bones used for clothes, shelter, food and tools, but also serve as beasts of burden to carry packs and pull sleds. Through this husbandry, reindeer have become the only domesticated species of deer.