|Reindeer on short montane grassland.|
|Reindeer on grasslands below mountains.|
Lastly, predation; there may be none of the large 'typical' predators such as wolves in Britain (yet), but there is video evidence from Finland of golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) hunting reindeer calves - I've not heard of this happening in Britain, but with golden eagle numbers having increased in Scotland, I would be very interested to hear if this behaviour has been witnessed...
For general background information on reindeer, click here.
|Bye for now - and season's greetings! Got any lichen...?|
Hughes, J., Albon, S., Irvine, R., & Woodin, S. (2008). Is there a cost of parasites to caribou? Parasitology, 136 (02), 253-265 DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008005246
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