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This programme was filmed in Svalbard and Northern Norway in winter and summer. It compares two types of reindeer, thae mainland species, Rangifer tarrandus with the Svalbard sub-species, Rangifer ...tarrandus platyhynchus. In so doing it shows how through evolution these very different types of reindeer have adapted to the sub arctic and high arctic environments of Northern Norway and Svalbard respectively.
This programme was filmed in Svalbard and Northern Norway in winter and summer. It compares two types of reindeer, thae mainland species, Rangifer tarrandus with the Svalbard sub-species, Rangifer ...tarrandus platyhynchus. In so doing it shows how through evolution these very different types of reindeer have adapted to the sub arctic and high arctic environments of Northern Norway and Svalbard respectively.
| Module code and title: | S365, Evolution |
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| Item code: | S365; 01 |
| First transmission date: | 1992 |
| Published: | 1992 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:15 |
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| Producer: | David Jackson |
| Contributor: | Caroline Pond |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Behaviour; Evolution; Svalbard Norway; Winter/summer reindeer adaption |
| Subject terms: | Animals--Adaptation; Reindeer |
| Master spool number: | HOU6719 |
| Production number: | FOUS612N |
| Videofinder number: | 3768 |
| Available to public: | no |
