While in northern Sweden, I also got to feed some reindeer. Reindeer are on the small side. This guy looks big, but he is smaller than an average horse. The reindeer were very friendly, especially when they found out that I had a bag of moss to feed them.
Some fun facts about reindeer:
-both males and females have horns
-reindeer = caribou
-there are no more wild reindeer in Scandinavia, but they are herded by the Sámi, the native people of the Arctic
-the Sámi semi-domesticated reindeer hundreds of years ago and their migration patterns were primarily dependent on reindeer grazing patterns
-reindeer meat is still popular in Scandinavia
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