Body fat, or adipose tissue, is a crucial energetic buffer against starvation in humans and
other mammals, and reserves of white adipose tissue (WAT) rise and fall in parallel with food …

This chapter discusses the importance of nutrition and adaptation to the seasonally
changing availability and quality of reindeer and caribou diets, and the subsequent …

López, EM 2021. Transforming Kiruna. Producing Space, Society, and Legacies of
Inequality in the Swedish Ore Fields. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 62. 280 pp …

This chapter presents the most relevant diseases of semi-domesticated Eurasian tundra
reindeer (Rangifer t. tarandus) in a historical and contemporary perspective. Human relation …

This chapter focuses on common systems of supplementary feeding of semi-domesticated
reindeer in traditional reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia, and feeding of semi …

The authors reviewed the case circumstances, population characteristics, gross, and
histopathologic findings in 40 cases of emaciated dogs with a suspected diagnosis of …

Abstract Background Reindeer herding in Norway is based on traditional Sámi pastoralism
with the animals free ranging throughout the year. The animals move over large areas in …

Highly cellulolytic bacterial species such as Ruminococcus flavefaciens are regarded
essential for the microbial breakdown of cellulose in the rumen. We have investigated the …

Body condition classification is a simple way to assess the health and well-being of reindeer.
Treatments, including choice of drugs and dosages, are often based on the clinical …

Cervid herpesvirus 2 (CvHV2) has never been isolated from reindeer in Norway, but
serological data and investigations by PCR indicate that the virus is endemic in the country …