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Tuna-Fish04/23/20251 replyview on HN

There are no wild reindeer in Finnish Lapland. Every reindeer has an owner. The Sami, who practice large-scale reindeer herding, routinely round up every reindeer in the country every year.

They also prevent predation by exterminating all predators that threaten their herds.


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alistairSH04/24/2025

Even with the herds being owned/domesticated, you still have the issue of antlers being shed regularly. And do female reindeer grow them (white tail doe do not, that's what we have here in DC metro)?