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ArticleBody:While they won’t be pulling Santa’s sleigh anytime soon, Svalbard reindeer objectively could win a North Pole cuteness contest. This subspecies of reindeer is only found on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago and stands at roughly five-feet long and three-feet tall and about half the size of other reindeer. “They are actually quite morphologically unique from other reindeer.
Photo by Maggie Coblentz. They are master adapters Like other reindeer and caribou, they have adaptations for their ever-shifting world. They technically live in what’s considered a high arctic desert where there is not a lot of deep snow, but it is still very cold. Summer temperatures typically only reach the mid-40s Fahrenheit. “Their hooves can essentially be zero degrees Celsius, while their core body temperature stays stable,” explains Dwinnell.
Photo by Maggie Coblentz. When the tundra froze in mid-September and there was still a lot of green vegetation above ground, Dwinnell and her team did not observe any reindeer digging to find nutrients because the nutrients were frozen into the above ground vegetation. “They have some kind of ability to gather information of where the nutritious food is, even if it's not where the nutritious food is on the landscape, but where the nutrition within an individual plant lies,” says Dwinnell.
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