About: Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.       Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

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  • Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages. (en)
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  • 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 April 2016, page 98: (en)
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