The composition of the milk of the reindeer

• Published in: Journal of Dairy Research
• Main Authors: Aschaffenburg, R., Gregory, Margaret E., Kon, S. K., Rowland, S. J., Thompson, S. Y.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1962
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; General Medicine; Food Science; Arctic; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022029900011146; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022029900011146

For the past 10 years, a herd of reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus ) has been kept in the Scottish Highlands under the auspices of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom. It was established in 1952 when the Reindeer Co. Ltd. imported two small consignments of reindeer from Arctic Sweden. By 1962 the herd numbered about thirty, of which twenty-one have been bred in Scotland.