Excerpt from The Reindeer and Its Domestication The reindeer was elevated by man into a domesticated animal at a very late period, and generally is still domesticated very deficiently. The time when this happened can no longer be determined; however, it cannot have taken place much earlier than five hundred years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.