reindeer

     

The reineer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as the caribou when wild in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer, widespread and numerous across the northern Holarctic Region.

Trivia about reindeer

  • You'll feel like Santa when you ride a sleigh pulled by these animals at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg
  • Zoology:Animals of the genus Rangifer that provide the Lapps with meat, milk, clothing & transportation
  • Reportedly the Lapps were the first to depict Father Christmas with a sleigh drawn by these
  • The poem refers to these as coursers, calling them by name
  • 8-letter antlered migrants of the Arctic
  • These, like Donder & Blitzen, are das Rentier
  • Santa Claus might know that this word comes from the Scandinavian for "creature" & the Old English for "beast"
  • Domesticated deer, notably the Laplanders' this, produce milk, leather & a beef-like meat; ho ho ho!
  • Known as the caribou in North America, this Arctic deer is domesticated in some polar regions
  • The caribou
  • Seen here is a group of these animals cavorting in Finnmark, Norway
  • The only female deer with antlers, it uses them to dig in the snow for food
  • In 5000 B.C., before the horse was domesticated, northern Europeans used these to pull sleds
  • Herding these is a traditional basis of the Lapp economy
  • Of the female elk, moose or reindeer, the one which has antlers
  • During the winter, wolverines hunt caribou & this animal of the genus Rangifer; Santa's gonna be mad
  • Lord Dufferin wrote, "It is upon" this animal "that the Laplander is dependent for (almost) every comfort in life"
  • Many of the Sami make their living herding these animals of the family Cervidae