Subj : More Word Play
To   : Ardith Hinton
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Thu Dec 28 2017 15:59:25

Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from  27.12.2017 11:12
about More Word Play.


 AH>            Yes, in Scandinavia & parts of Russia the mode of
 AH> transportation I'm thinking of involves a species of rangifer.  There
 AH> are very similar animals in Alaska & northern Canada... AKA "caribou"...
 AH> but I reckon they are a different subspecies &/or nobody thought of
 AH> trying to domesticate them years ago.

 AH>            In North America sled dogs haul things over the frozen
 AH> tundra, which BTW appears to be much like the taiga north of the Russian
 AH> steppes.  :-)

The main problem here is where to get food for draught animals. Rangifer can 
get it themselves by digging snow with their hoofs and getting out lichen. But 
dogs want meat. From another side where there are deer there there is meat. 
From the third side if you can drive your sledge using deer why you need a pack 
of dogs?  ;-)

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2017

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