tam–lin:icedsilver:smoretime: owlmylove:tilthat: Finland’s Lapland is home to over twenty thousand r
tam–lin:icedsilver:smoretime: owlmylove: tilthat: Finland’s Lapland is home to over twenty thousand reindeer, but with thousands killed every year due to vehicle collisions in the dark, herders now cover the animals’ antlers with a harmless fluorescent paint that glows in the light of oncoming cars but is otherwise invisible. both female and male reindeer in Lapland grow antlers, which they shed in the spring, so a new coating is reapplied in the fall. thats definitely a god @systlin Imagine driving along and seeing this in the middle of the night not knowing it was man-made reflective paint I went to find another source and this is real (and definitely would scare the crap out of me, if I saw it IRL).Apparently, however, it didn’t work:“"Drivers often mistook reindeer with reflectors for people in the dark, thinking they wouldn’t run into the middle of the road when they saw car headlights approaching,” [Anne Ollila, director of the Finnish Reindeer Herders’ Association] told The Associated Press. “And the deer would tear the reflectors off.”[…] [R]eindeer would scrape off the fluorescent paint from their antlers. “Somehow the reindeer know they had paint on their antlers—maybe their friends laughed at them,” Ollila said.“(From https://phys.org/news/2016-06-reindeer-herders-finland-app-road.html)A quick search didn’t turn up any recent news in English, but the app does seem to be helping! -- source link
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