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A herd of reindeer at night in Scandinavia
January 20, 2012

Reindeer, Scandinavia

This Month in Photo of the Day: Travel Photos

On a moonlit night, herders bring the reindeer into temporary tarp-enclosed corrals called gárdi to separate the pregnant females from the rest.

See more pictures from the November 2011 feature story, "Sami: The People Who Walk With Reindeer."


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Photograph by Erika Larsen

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