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Show continues. A Newfoundland scientist sci-entist has reported to a United Nations symposium on subarctic subarc-tic wildlife that a 1900 census of Canada's wild reindeer (or caribou) showed 1,750,000 population. pop-ulation. Since then, he says, overhunting plus fires which destroy lichen, the animal's main food, have caused the population to "decrease alarmingly" alarm-ingly" to about half that number. Santa's reindeer becoming sparser In years to come, Santa will have trouble rounding up his "eight tiny reindeer" at Christmastime Christ-mastime if the present trend |