According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November
to mid-December.
Female reindeer retain their antlers till after they give birth in the spring. Therefore, according to EVERY historical rendition depicting Santa's
reindeer, EVERY single one of them, from
Rudolph to Blitzen, had to be a girl.
We should have known... ONLY women would be able to drag a fat man in a red velvet suit all around the world in one night and not get lost. Above and to the
right is our favourite
reindeer picture.
In addition to Rudolph, Santa has nine more reindeer who haul the sleigh the other reindeer are called: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner (Dunder) and Blitzen (Blixhem).
The above pair or reindeer seem more Bambi than reindeer, however they do capture the magic of
Christmas.
A lady found the fawn under
her step [they think the doe might have been hit by a car].
Her Ridge-Back dog, called Hogan, is helping look after
'Bambi'. The family named the stray fawn Bella. Once she has regained her strength they are going to
send the Bambi to some friends. They have experience of raising two orphan deer, and then releasing them to the wild. Right now Bella is being bottle fed.
Hogan has taken over nurse-maid duties. The fawn even shares his bed.
Pupils at a school in Sweden are being terrorised by a drunken Reindeer. Police say the animal has probably been eating fermented apples in a garden, reports Sky News.
Jan Caiman, a police officer in
Molndal, said, 'That could be the problem. We could be dealing with a boozy Reindeer'. Reindeer can weigh as much as 1,100 lb and personnel at the school described the erratic male as 'completely mad'. The
receptionist at the school, near Molndal, in the south of the country, told the Gothenburg Post, 'The children are really scared'. Police have contacted hunters and said that if the animal does not sober up and
calm down, it could be shot.
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