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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2962925" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>Yeah I like the big haul of venison meat. I knew a fella who was a minister and originally from Texas that moved up here…he had worked for a butcher when he was a teenager down there, and helped process a lot of deer. After moving here and seeing some of our whitetail his comment was </p><p></p><p>"not everything is bigger in Texas" <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p><p></p><p>But I will say…there's actually a lot more total animals down there. They're just smaller. But I read somewhere how many deer they estimate are in Texas and it's way more than Saskatchewan, and we're very similar in geographical area. But harsh winters and less food overall as far as year round availability of high energy foods means we actually can't naturally sustain anything close to the population density up here. But ours do get massive, part of that's a survival adaptation as heavier animals have a higher mass to surface area ratio and therefore don't radiate body heat in cold weather as swiftly - also of note, the Inuit peoples of far northern Canada and Alaska are often naturally built short and stout with proportionately big torsos and short stocky arms and legs - same idea, generations of adaptation lead to that and I'm sure you can see how being tall, skinny, and gangly wouldn't be in your favour in -40 weather. </p><p></p><p>They call this natural phenomenon "Bergman's rule", that at least on average the further north you go/the colder you get the less total animals of a species are there but the ones that are there get notably bigger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2962925, member: 109862"] Yeah I like the big haul of venison meat. I knew a fella who was a minister and originally from Texas that moved up here…he had worked for a butcher when he was a teenager down there, and helped process a lot of deer. After moving here and seeing some of our whitetail his comment was “not everything is bigger in Texas” 🤣 But I will say…there’s actually a lot more total animals down there. They’re just smaller. But I read somewhere how many deer they estimate are in Texas and it’s way more than Saskatchewan, and we’re very similar in geographical area. But harsh winters and less food overall as far as year round availability of high energy foods means we actually can’t naturally sustain anything close to the population density up here. But ours do get massive, part of that’s a survival adaptation as heavier animals have a higher mass to surface area ratio and therefore don’t radiate body heat in cold weather as swiftly - also of note, the Inuit peoples of far northern Canada and Alaska are often naturally built short and stout with proportionately big torsos and short stocky arms and legs - same idea, generations of adaptation lead to that and I’m sure you can see how being tall, skinny, and gangly wouldn’t be in your favour in -40 weather. They call this natural phenomenon “Bergman’s rule”, that at least on average the further north you go/the colder you get the less total animals of a species are there but the ones that are there get notably bigger. [/QUOTE]
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