Tag: Reindeer
This Stone Age wall may have led Eurasian reindeer to their doom
If this underwater wall could talk, it might reveal that it once helped Stone Age Europeans hunt reindeer.
Submerged about 20 meters below the surface of the Baltic Sea off the coast of Germany, the wall stretches for almost a kilometer and contains nearly 1,700 stones, making it among the largest human-made megastructures in Northern Europe, scientists report February 12 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The team suspects it was used for hunting large prey,
Reindeer multitask by chewing cud and sleeping at the same time
In this busy holiday season, many of us multitask. Arctic reindeer are no exception.
Reindeer can eat and sleep at the same time, a new study suggests. This timesaving strategy, described December 22 in Current Biology, adds to the number of ingenious ways animals can catch some z’s under tough conditions (SN: 11/30/23).
Arctic reindeer are quite busy in the summer — eating when the sun shines around the clock and the food is abundant. Like other
Reindeer herders and scientists collaborate to understand Arctic warming
The spring 2014 annual reindeer festival in Yar-Sale, a rural town on the Yamal Peninsula in Western Siberia, was a grim affair. A rainstorm followed by a deep freeze the previous November had turned the normally snow-covered tundra into an ice shield. Reindeer could not paw through the thick ice to access lichen, their primary food source. In a region where winter temperatures can plunge below –50° Celsius, that ground remained frozen months later. Tens of thousands of reindeer had