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What kind of deer is Santa's deer?

Santa Claus's deer is a reindeer (scientific name: Rangifer tarandus), also known as a deer with horns.

It is the only animal belonging to the reindeer family of Cervidae. Body length 100 ~ 125 cm, shoulder height 100 ~ 120 cm. Both men and women have horns, and the complex branches of horns are an important feature of their appearance. Long-horned branches are complex, sometimes more than 30 forks, with wide hooves, well-developed hanging hooves and extremely short tails.

Reindeer are covered with light but extremely cold-resistant fur. The coat colors of different subspecies and genders are significantly different in different seasons, ranging from dark brown of male reindeer in North American woodland to white in Greenland in summer. The main coat colors are brown, grayish white, gray and white.

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The most amazing behavior of reindeer is the annual migration of hundreds of kilometers. As soon as spring comes, they leave the forests and grasslands in the subarctic region and migrate north along the same route for hundreds of years. Moreover, it is always headed by the doe, followed by the male deer, in an orderly way, driving straight ahead, eating while walking, and traveling day and night, taking off thick winter clothes along the way, and giving birth to new thin summer clothes, and the fluff fell to the ground, which just became a road sign.

So year after year, I don't know how many centuries have passed. Reindeer always move at a constant speed. Only when they are disturbed by wolves or chased by hunters, will they run violently, make earth-shattering noises, raise dust all over the sky, break the tranquility of the grassland, and launch a life competition on the originally silent Arctic land. ?

Little reindeer grow faster than any other animal. The female deer is pregnant in winter and gives birth during the migration in spring. Two or three days after delivery, the cubs can follow the doe on the road. A week later, they can run as fast as their parents, up to 48 kilometers per hour.

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