Dec. 22nd, 2022 01:27 pm
Just for fun
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oakfarmI had to upload my photo of semi-domesticated reindeers they have on the town square. You see it eats lichen, they don’t eat carrots. Well, the big social media site teached me that Canadian kids leave carrots outside for Santa's reindeers, and I’m going to assume it’s a more international thing.
To my understanding lichen is also the reason, or one of the reasons, climate change is bad for the reindeer herding industry. Warm days in the middle of the winter, days with rain and melting snow, leaves ice on the ground and then the reindeers can’t get to their beloved lichen.
Also “semi-domesticated” for a short while I thought like this: “Domestication is more or less that animals start living with humans, so are the reindeers just semi okay with humans.” But no, they have lived around humans their whole life, they might be very okay with us running around them. I could write at least one more trivial thing about reindeers. Well, the weird unexpected thing is that one company Jennifer Doudna is involved with is called Caribou biosciences and she shared the nobel prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier who worked at the local university.
To my understanding lichen is also the reason, or one of the reasons, climate change is bad for the reindeer herding industry. Warm days in the middle of the winter, days with rain and melting snow, leaves ice on the ground and then the reindeers can’t get to their beloved lichen.
Also “semi-domesticated” for a short while I thought like this: “Domestication is more or less that animals start living with humans, so are the reindeers just semi okay with humans.” But no, they have lived around humans their whole life, they might be very okay with us running around them. I could write at least one more trivial thing about reindeers. Well, the weird unexpected thing is that one company Jennifer Doudna is involved with is called Caribou biosciences and she shared the nobel prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier who worked at the local university.