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Carol
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[T]he ancient Tungus have … been credited by some as the original domesticators of reindeer. The Tungus are the ancestors of many different groups of reindeer hunters and herders in Russia today, including the Evenk, Even and Dolgans. … Like the Sayan, it is very likely that they developed a method of riding reindeer to enable them to travel with ease through the taiga, to allow them to hunt and fish.
— Jan 07, 2024 04:22PM
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Carol
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Once the herd meets us they patiently wait, silent but attentive, for the food to appear. There is no incessant noise like a hungry sheep baaing for its food. Making a noise is costly, because by expelling air to grunt the animal loses heat. Reindeer grunt as their means of communication but grunting is kept to a minimum during the winter months.
— Jan 09, 2024 06:56PM
Carol
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Humans would never have been able to inhabit the Arctic without the reindeer but the reindeer can live in the Arctic without humans. This makes humans a parasite of the reindeer.
— Jan 07, 2024 04:24PM
Carol
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Until the 1950s, when they moved to permanent settlements, the Chipewyan Indians … maximized their contact with caribou by moving from winter settlements in the boreal forest to summer camps near the tree line…. It appears to have been a successful strategy for survival as the Chipewyan have few legends of starvation, in contrast to the sedentary Inuit on the Arctic coastline….
— Jan 07, 2024 03:54PM
Carol
is on page 98 of 192
Unlike the reindeer of Eurasia, the caribou of North America were never domesticated. They would undoubtedly have been of prime importance as a hunted animal in Paleolithic times in North America, but the hunter-gatherer lifestyle appears never to have evolved further, and to this day the indigenous people of North America are hunters rather than herders.
— Jan 07, 2024 03:42PM
