Poronkusema

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Poronkusema ( Finnish , literally "the piss of the reindeer ") is an old Finnish measure of length .

It used to be used in reindeer herding and developed out of the observation that reindeer cannot run and mictate at the same time . A poronkusema corresponds to the distance that a reindeer can cover without knocking off its water, i.e. a maximum of around 7.5 km.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paljonko on poronkusema? Tiede.fi, January 19, 2009 (Finnish, accessed March 21, 2016).
  2. ^ The Finns Have a Unit of Measurement Based on a Reindeer's Urinary Habits . Slate.com , December 27, 2013 (accessed March 21, 2016).