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Castration Helps Reindeer Handle Climate Change
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| 27 Jan 2010
| Kevin Spak
Posted on 01/27/2011 12:34:44 PM PST by XHogPilot
The indigenous Sami peoples in the Arctic have found a way to help reindeer survive the ravages of climate change—but we’re guessing the deer don’t like it too much. Fluctuating temperatures have been a challenge for the reindeer, because melting snow often refreezes and forms ice over the pastures they feed on. Sami researchers have found that castrating male reindeer allows them to more easily break the ice, in part because they keep their antlers later into winter.
It also makes the males more likely to share their food with calves that would otherwise starve to death. “To make herds more resilient in the future, we need to relearn the traditional knowledge of castration,” one professor tells Reuters. Specifically, they’re aiming for “half-castration,” which renders animals sterile, but able to produce testosterone. In Norway, where the law forbids castration without anesthetics, researchers are experimenting with an injection that could mimic the effects.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; climatechange; climategate; globalwarming; ouch; rundeerrun
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To: XHogPilot
Not cold enough to freeze their nuts off?
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:50:45 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't skipper a boat, Can't drive, Can't ski, Can't fly. But they KNOW what's best!)
To: XHogPilot
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posted on
01/27/2011 1:57:24 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
To: SuperLuminal
Well, I didn't write the article, but I couldn't resist posting...
Congratulations, XHogPilot...This has to be the decade’s sweetest softball pitch...{:-)
To: Nervous Tick
Are you sure he hasn’t already been...
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posted on
01/27/2011 2:13:52 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(All hail the Kenyan Prince Obama, Lord of the Skid-mark, constantly soiling himself and our nation.)
To: XHogPilot
“males more likely to share their food with calves that would otherwise starve to death. “To make herds more resilient in the future”
I thought that in nature only the strong survive and that builds a stronger herd.
After castration wouldn’t the number in the herd be smaller and weaker from weaker animals breeding that would not have lived if nature was left to take its course?
My $.02.
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posted on
01/27/2011 2:18:06 PM PST
by
Hotmetal
(GO DAWGS !!!!!!!)
To: Red Badger
It also makes the males more likely to share They've discovered how to make communism work this time.
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posted on
01/27/2011 2:18:43 PM PST
by
Reeses
To: XHogPilot
So, now they can get to their food easier.
BUT
They can no longer reproduce?
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posted on
01/27/2011 2:48:39 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't skipper a boat, Can't drive, Can't ski, Can't fly. But they KNOW what's best!)
To: XHogPilot; FrPR; enough_idiocy; meyer; Normandy; Whenifhow; TenthAmendmentChampion; Clive; ...
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posted on
01/27/2011 2:55:23 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
To: XHogPilot
Now we know what happened to the RINOs. They were told it would help them to handle climate change.
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posted on
01/27/2011 3:13:05 PM PST
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: muawiyah
Ping
We’re talkin’Sami here!
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posted on
01/27/2011 3:17:44 PM PST
by
happygrl
To: XHogPilot; glock rocks; SouthTexas; Brad's Gramma
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posted on
01/27/2011 4:05:31 PM PST
by
tubebender
(The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Eureka...)
To: tubebender; XHogPilot
Methinks the researchers have life all screwed up.
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posted on
01/27/2011 7:33:06 PM PST
by
SouthTexas
(Is it time for tea yet?)
To: XHogPilot; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; America_Right; ...
To: XHogPilot
Castration Helps Reindeer Handle Climate ChangeSheesh, I think I'd rather go with the climate change.
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posted on
01/29/2011 9:08:32 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: GraceG
I read your post and immediately thought of that video
Cows with guns
To: XHogPilot
Couldn't hope for a more “progressive” solution. The libtard followers of the environmental religion will buy it and you can reduce the human population to a “manageable” level at the same time. Brilliant!
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posted on
01/30/2011 11:26:59 AM PST
by
SeaWolf
(Orwell must have foreseen the 21st Century US Congress when he wrote 1984)
To: XHogPilot
Castration Helps Reindeer Handle Climate Change Mmkay...but how do they hold the knife?
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posted on
01/30/2011 11:30:02 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: The Comedian; JoeProBono; muawiyah; blam
To: hennie pennie
An ethnic Sami races a reindeer across the snowy tundra.
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posted on
01/30/2011 11:52:36 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: hennie pennie
"And that's why Rudolph's nose is red"
Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
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posted on
01/30/2011 11:56:22 AM PST
by
The Comedian
(It's 3am all over the planet.)
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