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  • Reindeer antlers, which can be sold as Chinese medicine, are a valuable source of secondary income for the nomadic Komi reindeer herders who live north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.  These  are carefully preserved in the spring when animals drop their horns.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, some of the more prized possessions of the nomadic Komi reindeer herders are their decorative harnesses, which are sometimes made from reindeer leather and antlers and are passed from one generation to the next. This was made in 1902.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a domesticated reindeer grazes in the tundra.  This animal has recently dropped one antler and the next will fall shortly - an annual occurence.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, domesticated reindeer stand in snow on the tundra.  Each animal has recently dropped one antler and the next will fall shortly - an annual occurence.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a domesticated reindeer walks through snow on the tundra.  This animal has recently dropped one antler and the next will fall shortly - an annual occurence.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder harnesses domesticated animals to his sled in order to move camp from one grazing area to the next.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) swims across the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • Tourists wander dangerously close to Elk grazing in Yelowstone National Park, Wyoming. Mount Holmes rises in the background.
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  • A moose fords the Jefferson River near Willow Creek, Montana.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) swims across the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) bugles beside the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) walks beside the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) crosses a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) relax in Elk Park Meadows in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) relaxes in Elk Park Meadows in Yellowstone National Park.  Dome Mountain rises in the background.
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  • Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) relax in Elk Park Meadows in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) relax in Elk Park Meadows in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) relaxes in Elk Park Meadows in Yellowstone National Park.  Dome Mountain rises in the background.
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  • A bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in Elk Park Meadows in Yellowstone National Park.  Dome Mountain rises in the background.
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  • Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) graze in Elk Park Meadows in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • Tourists wander dangerously close to Elk grazing in Yelowstone National Park, Wyoming. Dome Mountain rises in the background.
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  • Tourists wander dangerously close to Elk grazing in Yelowstone National Park, Wyoming. Dome Mountain rises in the background.
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  • Tourists wander dangerously close to Elk grazing in Yelowstone National Park, Wyoming. Mount Holmes rises in the background.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 72-year old nomadic reindeer herder Marie Vaucheskaya, of the Komi clan, holds up a temporary pen.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer graze on lichens in the tundra surrounding patches of taiga forest, with a long sunset lighting up the sky.
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  • A herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in a field near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A ranch truck drives past a herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazing in a field near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in a field near Bozeman, Montana.  The Bridger Mountains rise in the background.
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  • A herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in a field near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A hay truck drives past a herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazing in a field near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A Tsaatan reindeer herder wearing a traditional daftan called a del sits by his animals in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
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  • An elk, descended from animals imported by Swedish explorer Otto Nordenskjöld, walks on a ridge at Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia, Antarctica.
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  • An elk, descended from animals imported by Swedish explorer Otto Nordenskjöld, walks near Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia, Antarctica.
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  • An elk walks through Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • A bull elk stands in a burned lodgepole pine forest in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
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  • Two moose cross Gibbon River to forage on willow bushes.
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  • A Rocky Mountain Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) stops traffic on a road in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) wades across the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) swims across the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park.
    WYe 120619-540.jpg
  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • A Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • Bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) relax in Elk Park Meadows in Yellowstone National Park.
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  • Tourists wander dangerously close to Elk grazing in Yelowstone National Park, Wyoming. Dome Mountain rises in the background.
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  • A bull Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in Elk Park Meadows in Yellowstone National Park.  Dome Mountain rises in the background.
    WYe 120619-157.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a reindeer of the nomadic Komi clan wears a decorative harness, including a spruce collar that it permanently affixed to enable its capture.
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  • A moose fords the Jefferson River near Willow Creek, Montana.
    MTe 130615-157.jpg
  • A herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in a field near Bozeman, Montana.
    MTe 121107-368.jpg
  • A herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in a field near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in a field near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in a field near Bozeman, Montana.  The Bridger Mountains rise in the background.
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  • A herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in a field near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in a field near Bozeman, Montana. The Bridger Mountains rise in the background.
    MTe 121107-117.jpg
  • A herd of Elk (Cervus canadensis) grazes in a field near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • Reindeer relax outside a Tsaatan family's teepee by Lake Hovsgol , in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
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  • An elk, descended from animals imported by Swedish explorer Otto Nordenskjöld, walks in a snowstorm at Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia, Antarctica.
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  • A reindeer feeds on lichens in tundra near Snopa, Russia, a tiny hamlet near the Arctic Ocean shores  of the Barents Sea, about 500 miles northeast of Arkhangelsk.
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  • Because antlers are valuable for Chinese medicine, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder who lives north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, saws one off before the animal drops it naturally while grazing in the wild.  According to Arthum, this is not painful.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a domesticated reindeer grazes in the tundra.  This animal has recently dropped on antler and the next will fall shortly - an annual occurence.
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  • WYOMING. Antler arch in Jackson's town square.
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  • WYOMING, Antler arch in front of the well-known Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson.
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  • WYOMING. Antler arch and famous Cowboy Bar in Jackson.
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