I am making another donation to this site and Jim because of your fascinating post!
We’ve actually seen live reindeer upclose in Norway’s tundra, and later we had a farm raised reindeer steak in Oslo.
It was The Best meat I had ever eaten!
Thank you fellow FReepers for ongoing education!
Thank YOU! :-)
Have you ever seen a reindeer cyclone? I looked elsewhere on the web and one website said even a small number of reindeer will sometimes exhibit that behavior in a confined space like a corral.
“Well - you first. How much money do you have in the bank!?”
They both laughed as my old man realized his faux pa.
My Norwegian grandfather was very dark skinned, black hair, dark brown eyes. My dad always figured some viking had captured a young gal from the Mediterranean. But then he took the trip up to his Laplander relatives!
My dad visited a distant relative that he found out about that was a Laplander and stayed at his place (this was years ago.) My mom and dad were welcomed in and had a great time. Part of it was at his home, and IIRC part was out on the tundra in a Yurt or whatever they call it where the reindeer were.
My dad asked him “So how many reindeer do you have?”
The relative replied “How much money do you have in the bank?”
My dad laughed. “Point taken!”