Reindeer are cousins of caribou.\u00a0 They live in the northern stretches of Eurasia and North America. \u00a0They stand about three and a half feet tall, weigh 300 pounds, and can run 15 miles an hour. \u00a0Only nine of them have been known to fly.\u00a0 And here\u2019s a little-known fact:\u00a0 males drop their antlers before winter, while females keep theirs.<\/p>\n
Think about it. Do you get our point? Just one more second, it\u2019ll come to you\u2026<\/p>\n
Ah, right. Santa\u2019s got an all-girl team working for him! Sure, you could have expected Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen to be ladies, but Comet, Cupid, Donner (which means \u201cThunder\u201d in German), and Blitzen (\u201cLighting\u201d)? Pretty macho names for she-deer!<\/p>\n
Now, the cynics will tell you that some younger bull reindeer will keep their antlers into the winter, at least until December 24, so part of the team could be young bachelors. But consider the case of Rudolph. A quick investigation reveals that his voice in the 1964 TV classic \u201cRudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer\u201d was provided by none other than character actress Billie Rae Richards! Busted! Rudolph\u2019s a girl too!<\/p>\n
When you think about it, it makes sense. Who else but nine women could pull a fat guy clear around the world in one night, make billions of deliveries on time, and never get lost?!<\/p>\n
Happy holidays from all of us at quickSilver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reindeer are cousins of caribou.\u00a0 They live in the northern stretches of Eurasia and North America. \u00a0They stand about three and a half feet tall, weigh 300 pounds, and can run 15 miles an hour. \u00a0Only nine of them have been known to fly.\u00a0 And here\u2019s a little-known fact:\u00a0 males…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[251,1022,1059,1080,1112],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-christmas","tag-reindeer","tag-rudolf","tag-santa","tag-she-deer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}