Video by Daisy Gilardini Photography / Reindeer need from 4 to 8 kg of food a day. They are herbivorous, so their diet consists mainly of grasses, mosses, herbs, ferns, shrubs, willows, and, during the winter months, lichens and fungi. It is hard for Svalbard reindeer to reach food in winter as it is often buried under sheets of ice and snow. For that reason, they spend much of their time kicking holes in the snow. It’s exhausting work, but once they reach food they graze and then lie down to ch