Talk:Reindeer in South Georgia

A fact from Reindeer in South Georgia appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 June 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that reindeer were introduced to South Georgia by Norwegian whalers?

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Bell and Dieterich actually talk about successful introduction of SG reindeers to Falkland which is omitted from this article. Strange. --85.253.66.252 (talk) 21:47, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Additional source by W. Nigel Bonner, 1958

This is the first survey of the reindeer population, and may be of use.

W. Nigel Bonner; The Introduced Reindeer of South Georgia 1958. Cambridge: British Antarctic Survey (BAS Scientific Report 22)

I'm not a scientist, but may try to add some information to the article. Tribe of Tiger ^{Let's Purrfect!} 23:10, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]