Listening to reindeer in the dark
In the dark Arctic winter, a strange clicking moves across the tundra — not branches, but reindeer tendons slipping over bone, an adaptation that helps them stay connected when vision fails. Scientist Michael Palace spent more than a decade there mapping change. He didn’t expect that the reindeer — and the Sámi who herd them — would retrain how he listens, and how he does science.
