Comment by bethekidyouwant
1 day ago
They are painting antlers. No information on how they are going to do this every year. (since antlers are only around for eight months a year and I imagine you have to paint them once they’re fully grown so four months in?) What an absolutely useless article, how do you actually bag and tag every reindeer in the entire country, it makes absolutely no sense
There are no wild reindeer in Finnish Lapland. Every reindeer has an owner. The Sami, who practice large-scale reindeer herding, routinely round up every reindeer in the country every year.
They also prevent predation by exterminating all predators that threaten their herds.
Even with the herds being owned/domesticated, you still have the issue of antlers being shed regularly. And do female reindeer grow them (white tail doe do not, that's what we have here in DC metro)?
I guess they think the whole world knows about domestic animals in northern europe. This is not wild animals we are talking about, then it makes some sort of sense, right.