Trip to taiga : the reindeers

The Tsaatan people are the only reindeers herders of Mongolian. They have about 50 reindeers for each family, which is actually a few to survive only from them. The families must move regularly to find new pasture fields for their animals, who eat mostly lichens.
The reindeers often stay around the tipies (the houses of Tsaatan people).

Even sometime, they want to enter the house !

Some of them had huge antlers !

This baby still has to wait a little bit for antlers.

Domestic deers are pretty familiar with humans, more than other domestic animals that we saw in Mongolia. For example, they love to lick your hands because they are a little bit salty. The Tsaatan also give them regularly salt this way.

Look at their strange feet ! The nails make a funny "clicking" sound when the reindeer walks. The voice of the reindeer is also strange. It sounds maybe like a depressive wild pig.