Rene Redzepi was crouched and using a sharp knife to scrape lichen from rocks. The tiny green tubes usually feed reindeer in this land above the Arctic Circle. "If animals can eat it, we can ...

Ask the reindeer Reindeer have to dig for food in dark, ... But surprisingly, their diet consists mostly of organisms called lichens, also known as reindeer moss, which are white.

Reindeer primarily eat Cladonia rangiferina (C. rangiferina), which is appropriately nicknamed reindeer moss. This plant is not a moss, but a species of algae-fungus called lichen .

What we call reindeer moss is nothing of the kind. It's not even a plant; it's a lichen. Lichens, which account for half of the natural nitrogen fertilizer used by plants and animals, are a ...

A widespread Arctic lichen, called reindeer moss (not a moss) or caribou lichen (Cladonia rangiferina), is abundant year round. Lichens make up a large part of the reindeer diet, especially in winter.

Lichens are one of my favorite life forms. They are considered to be one of the toughest organisms on Earth. They grow on bare rock and have been taken to space and survived!

Reindeer subsist largely on light-colored reindeer moss, which isn’t actually a moss but rather a type of lichen that grows in crunchy, carpet-like patches across northern latitudes.

Reindeer are big animals that need a lot of energy, but their diet consists mostly of organisms called lichens – also known as reindeer moss. "Lichens are this amazing lifeform.