No Reindeers For Santa?

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    • Publish Date: Dec 15 2016 12:06PM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 24 2016 5:28PM
No Reindeers For Santa?

Because the Xmas 's reindeers are shrinking in number

Paris: If Santa is recruiting helpers to haul Christmas presents around the world this year he had better take a few extra, said researchers Monday who warned that reindeer are shrinking.

Their weight is reducing
Over the past 16 years, the weight of adult reindeer in Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic has dropped by 12 percent, likely due to global warming, said study findings presented to a meeting at the British Ecological Society (BES) in Liverpool. By the time they reached adulthood, reindeer born in 2010 weighed just over 48 kilogrammes (106 pounds), compared to 55 kg for those born in 1994. 
"Twelve percent may not sound very much, but given how important body weight is to reproduction and survival, it's potentially huge," study leader Steve Albon of the James Hutton Institute in Scotland, told AFP.
Previous research had shown that when the average adult weight in April is less than 50kg, the population as a whole declines, he added.

61,000 reindeer starved to death in Siberia following a rain-on-snow event in 2013 to 2014, according to a November 2016 study published in the journal Biology Letters.

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How climate change affects the reindeer
Albon and his fellow researchers blame climate change for the shrinking reindeer. Scientists say land surface temperatures in the Arctic were about 2.8 degrees Celsius higher last year than when records began a century earlier. Warmer winters mean more rain, which falls on snow and freezes, the BES explained in a statement.
The ice prevents reindeer from getting to the lichen which comprises the bulk of their winter diet and for which they usually forage in the snow.
Lichen are complex organisms comprised of a fungus living in symbiosis with an alga or bacterium.
"The reindeer starve, aborting their calves or giving birth to much lighter young," said the BES.

 

How the numbers have reduced

Reindeer numbers have increased over the past two decades, said the research team, so greater competition for food likely also contributed to their smaller size. This meant there could be more, but smaller reindeer in the Arctic in the decades to come, "possibly at risk of catastrophic die-offs because of increased ice on the ground."
The team has tracked Arctic reindeer since 1994, catching, marking and measuring 10-month-old calves every winter and returning the following year to recapture and note the animals' size and weight.

 
Did you Know: Santa's reindeers are are popularly known as Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. The first reference of them were made in 'Old Santeclaus with Much Delight', an illustrated children's poem published in New York in 1821. 

Animals threatened by global warming 
  • Polar bears
  • Penguins
  • Pikas
  • Pandas
  • Seals
  • Sea turtles
  • Puffins
  • Koalas
 
 

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Comments

Onkarpreet Bhavan Vidyalaya

OOPs! This is sad. We really need to look into this matter. Santa Claus is incomplete without his reindeer.

Ritvik Baweja BAL BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL (PITAM PUR

The black cloud of climate change has many polar animals in its clutches. Not only reindeers but many other like polar bears have a threat from this deadly climate apocalypse. One of the major reason for climate change is melting of polar ice caps and which is inturn due to global warming. If humans don''t control their actions then probably these animals no. would dwindle in a large no. and which will cause a disruption in our life cycle.

SANYA KHURANA DAV PUBLIC SCH SEC-49 GUGAON

this is really a sad news. this is really a big issue. we should take steps to preserve the animals.

sunand deep singh ASHOK MEMORIAL SCH SEC-35 FBD

I completely agree with it.As we are polluting our environment which is giving rise to issues like global warming,climate change, etc. And due to global warming polar ice caps are melting and the temperature is increasing which is causing loss of habitats for many species including raindeers so it is the perfect time to take a step and save our environment so that santa will never come without raindeers.

Sneha Sehrawat J.M. INTERNATIONAL SCH00L

Santa is always seen in his sledge but without reindeer. Why do we look it for a festival. As an individual we must understand that because of us somebody else who is not at fault has to suffer. Its not tough at all if we really be considerate and compassionate about someone else.

A.parmeshgoud sree narayana vidya bhavan

Santa Claus is incomplete without his reindeer. it is a sad news.

Darsh Shah Gopi Birla Memorial School - Walkeshwar

Now all electricity wasters and polluters will go straight on the naughty list for being responsible for death of rendiers

Vajra Yalamanchili DDMS P.OBUL REDDY PUBLIC SCHOOL

oops ! we might not receive gifts from santa

Sudeeksha Pandey THE INDIAN HEIGHTS SCHOOL, DWARKA

This is totally true!! Climate change is a very serious matter to be looked into. No wonder so many animals including the ones in tropic regions are reducing in number..

Abhi Dabas Bal Bharati Public School Pitampura

this is just because of filthy humans who are destroying ecosystem and changing the ecological balance.

Nishi Upadhyay BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL (SWASTHYA VHR)

reindeer needs to be saved.

Yashna Arora GD Goenka Public School,Model town

Let''s leave nothing for the posterity to cherish,neither the environment nor it''s presents. I wonder how our kids would draw Santa in their sketch pads without his idiosyncratic accomplices-the reindeer.Perhaps they might not even be fortunate enough to witness Santa''s residence place ,given the rate at which ice caps are melting down. Courtesy:humans. We seriously need to wake up...

Aditi Sahi D C MODEL SCH PKL-SEC-7

It is so sad that due to our deeds once again another species life is endangered.Sometimes I feel that millions of years ago Unicorns might also have been present on earth but we would not have been careful that time and it might be possible that we are repeating history again.

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