For an outsider it is quite amazing how easily Nenets recognise their reindeer’s faces among a herd of 10,000. When rounding up a herd of 10,000, every person in the camp, even 6 year old children, instantly know which ones are hand-raised or sacred and must therefore be released. They even recognise the sacred and hand-raised ones of other families. I have seen two 6-year old girls standing outside a chum while a herd of 10,000 galloped past around thirty metres away,and when the two of them spotted one of their family’s hand-raised reindeer they started wavng, jumping up and down and shouting greetings.