Imagine trudging through an Arctic winter where temperatures drop well below –30 °C and daylight disappears for months. Now picture the creature built to thrive there - meeting snow, ice and darkness ...

Reindeer have to dig for food in dark, snowy climate during winter. Their vision is adapted to make that task less challenging. So there are a lot of myths about reindeer, and at least one or more of ...

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Researchers report that the more time reindeer spend ruminating, the less time they spend in non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep. EEG recordings revealed that reindeer's brainwaves during ...

Reindeer appear to snooze throughout the day while chewing their cud. This may be an adaptation to their Arctic habitat, where food is abundant in the summer and they must constantly eat to gain ...

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Winter climate change is affecting the carbon exchange of northern coniferous forests, but the response depends upon reindeer grazing, according to a new study from the University of Oulu, Finland.