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In February 2008, me and two friends were on vacation in the northern parts of Sweden and Norway. We spotted reindeer on more than one occasion while out driving, but this particular time we parked the car on the side of the road and got out of the car.
I walked up from the road and into the forest, and found myself literally surrounded by several hundreds of really beautiful reindeer calmly grazing around me. I sadly have no good photos of this, because it was getting dark, and the photos I tried to take with my own camera came out really blurry.
This photo was taken by one of my friends, with his camera being better, although the picture still looks kinda dark. And yeah, that's me standing there, a while before I walked away from the road and into the forest.
This picture will soon be put amongst scraps.
I walked up from the road and into the forest, and found myself literally surrounded by several hundreds of really beautiful reindeer calmly grazing around me. I sadly have no good photos of this, because it was getting dark, and the photos I tried to take with my own camera came out really blurry.
This photo was taken by one of my friends, with his camera being better, although the picture still looks kinda dark. And yeah, that's me standing there, a while before I walked away from the road and into the forest.
This picture will soon be put amongst scraps.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Cervine (Other)
Size 2240 x 1680px
File Size 2.34 MB
Thank you for posting this. We had a farmer near us who kept a reindeer he'd gotten from one of those wretched roadside zoos, The animal had the gentlest disposition, although perhaps being heutered helped. He got along well with the cows and horses, but the farmer would bring the reindeer into the barn during the hunting season. partly for the reindeer's safety but also because whitetail deer often hung around the pasture and the old man didn't want to "bait them". Thanks, silkyfur.
The Swedish reindeer does no longer exist as a purely wild species. The last purely wild ones disappeared some 120 years ago. While they are not tame, by the proper definition of the word, they are all "owned" and herded by the native Sami people, indigenous to the arctic regions of Scandinavia.
The Sami are semi-nomadic, and travel with the reindeer herds between the summer-grazing and the winter-grazing. But it is not done in the traditional ways any longer, as the Sami people use snowmobiles and helicopter to herd the reindeer.
There are about 260 000 of these semi-wild reindeer in Sweden.
The Sami are semi-nomadic, and travel with the reindeer herds between the summer-grazing and the winter-grazing. But it is not done in the traditional ways any longer, as the Sami people use snowmobiles and helicopter to herd the reindeer.
There are about 260 000 of these semi-wild reindeer in Sweden.
Wild moose can be very aggressive and dangerous. Tame moose can also be aggressive, but it depends a lot on how they were raised, and on their individual personality. It is quite common to keep moose in moose-parks where I live, and there are many tourists from Germany and other countries of mainland Europe, coming here to see the moose, and in some moose-parks you get to feed and pet the moose as well.
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