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Human–Reindeer Relationships and Reindeer Feeding: Perspectives from Archaeology and Reindeer Herders’ Knowledge [PDF]
Reindeer winter feeding is increasingly important to reindeer herders due to the effects of larger reindeer herds, fragmentation of pastures due to other land use, and climate change on the quantity and quality of winter pastures.
Salmi Anna-Kaisa +7 more
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Working Reindeer in Past and Present Reindeer Herding [PDF]
It has been suggested that draught reindeer have been used for pulling and carrying people and their things ever since reindeer were domesticated.
Salmi Anna-Kaisa +6 more
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Designing and building knowledge of cultural landscapes by Reindeer. How can we perceive cultural landscapes? Reindeer represents "landscape", and this project spreads facts about reindeer through images, words, and a space. Reindeer in the North are herded by minority groups. The reindeer in the South is known as Rudolph by many.
Hickley, Kristie
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Microbiological Contamination of Reindeer Carcasses in Different Reindeer Slaughterhouses [PDF]
The microbiological contamination of reindeer carcasses was studied in 10 Finnish reindeer slaughterhouses. Six of the slaughterhouses were field slaughterhouses and four were plant slaughterhouses. In each slaughterhouse 11 to 30 carcasses were sampled, with abdomen, brisket, and foreleg as sampling sites.
A M, Vaarala, H J, Korkeala
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Genetic structure and origin of semi-domesticated reindeer [PDF]
This chapter discusses the genetic variation and structure of semi-domesticated reindeer, as well as the genetic effects of the domestication process in connection with the pastoral transition from hunters to herders.
Kvie, Kjersti Sternang +5 more
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Antler cannibalism in reindeer [PDF]
AbstractPrion diseases constitute a class of invariably fatal and degenerative encephalopathies. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a contagious prion disease among cervids, which is spreading and causing marked population declines in USA and Canada. The first outbreak of CWD in Europe was discovered in a reindeer population in Norway in 2016.
Mysterud, Atle +5 more
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Reindeer behavioural ecology and use of pastures in pastoral livelihoods [PDF]
Reindeer pastoralists have, for centuries, followed free-roaming animals throughout the Eurasian Arctic. The closing of national borders about a century ago forced the reindeer pastoralists to adapt to new conditions.
Kumpula, Jouko +3 more
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Governing maximum reindeer numbers in Fennoscandia [Elektronisk resurs] [PDF]
This chapter examines the complexities and challenges in state governance of the maximum permitted number of reindeer in Finland, Norway and Sweden. The common findings regarding the three countries are that (1) maximum permitted numbers of reindeer set ...
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet. +2 more
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In the Arctic, indigenous reindeer herding peoples rely on a pastoralist food and knowledge system that supplies them with protein, vitamins, and minerals.
Ravdna Biret Marja E. Sara +2 more
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Moxidectin as an Endectocide in Reindeer [PDF]
During the winter 1991-92, 42 reindeer hinds of the Kaamanen Experimental Reindeer Herd in Finnish Lapland, naturally infected with various parasites, were allocated to 3 groups. One group was an untreated control group and the other 2 groups received either moxidectin or ivermectin at a dose of 200 micrograms kg-1 subcutaneously.
A, Oksanen, M, Nieminen
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