Man Castrates Reindeer With His Teeth | National Geographic

here in Norway about half of the
reindeer buying an extraordinary
partnership with people my torille has
brought me 30 miles out of town to the
plane where her herd spends the winter
the deer survive here by digging for
lichens under the snow male reindeer
fights so hard for the right to mate
they can exhaust themselves and die over
winter well I with you guys one solution
is to castrate a number of the males
here in Kota Kano scientists are testing
to see if traditional methods of
castration are better than modern
methods he’s going to use the
traditional method which is they’d be
bringing back now and he’s going to show
some I castrate this young male caribou
by by biting the testicles yeah
hey let are you getting ready for this
right lemon he bites and then he crushes
crush with your hands oh wow is that
okay
no that’s it you’ll bite them off
completely you just crush them okay
there go yeah okay one two three
he’s never gonna forget this day know
when the vet bid all this classical
modern castration tools would have
destroyed the steers testicles
completely Asami believed that biting
his testicles means that he is still
able to supply a little testosterone
enough to stay vigorous and he won’t
waste his energy rutting or mating
instead he will focus his attention on
eating and growing huge those males can
punch through the ice open it up so that
other reindeer can then get to the green
stuff below you must try to bite yeah no
I don’t I don’t think so I wouldn’t want
to hurt one of your reindeer in case I’d
bit too hard
Oh learning by doing