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I think its amazing that only 5,000 years ago it was much warmer than it is now How you can come to that conclusion, given that the dung dropped then, possibly
by MaysonL 12y ago
I think its amazing that only 5,000 years ago it was much warmer than it is now
How you can come to that conclusion, given that the dung dropped then, possibly in the snow, has remained frozen since then, and is now melting. I.e., it's been colder ever since then than it is now.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoCaribou defecate where they ruminate, not standing on the snow. [1] http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/viewFile/1271/1210 http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/viewFile...
- Intermernet 12y agoThe linked article does say "cervids tend To follow an extremely regular cycle of consumption, rumination and defecation (Oldemeyer & Franzmann, 1981; Dinerstein & Dublin, 1982), pellet group counts inevitably provide some indication of the habitats utilized regularly by a species". One of those references, "Oldemeyer & Franzmann, 1981" spends a large amount of time discussing how they correlate the "pellet count" with the actual defecation amount, and it's not as simple as "Caribou defecate where they ruminate, not standing on the snow.". [1] http://alcesjournal.org/index.php/alces/article/viewFile/117/166 http://alcesjournal.org/index.php/alces/article/viewFile/117...