Reindeer with snow

Reindeer is an animal that lives in the North Pole of the Northern Hemisphere, mainly distributed in the Arctic Circle.

The habit of wild reindeer is collective migration, every year, every winter, tens of thousands of reindeer gather into large herds moving south to the edge of frozen forest land. November 11 is the mating season of reindeer on the way to winter. Males after a battle to win, are mating with females. Then the male gathered

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to become a flock, continue to the south, and pregnant females and young children often stop along the road. The following spring, reindeer went north to the Arctic Ocean. Usually, the mother leads the way. By April 4-5, they returned to the familiar place of quiet frozen land.

Reindeer has a pair of long, branched horns, with no irregular rules. It also has 4 wonderful clogs, different from other deer: 4 toes of each foot have "shoes" horns inserted. The two sides are very long "shoes" , can be directly exposed to the ground. The horns inserted into the middle finger are very wide and curved like a hoe blade when they travel on a loose mud or snow, the fingers are made into a kind of "ski shoe", and it is also a very good tool for snow removal. 4 flexible and healthy legs with 4 big hard clogs digging the snow down to about 1m to find food.

Reindeer has tremendous cold tolerance and swimming skills. I covered it with two thick coats. The outer coat is cilia, filled with air that is medium and round, the inner hair is soft and thick, between the velvet hair also saturated with air. The subcutaneous fat layer of reindeer is also very thick. As a result, they live comfortably, not in the middle of an icy world.

Reindeer is an animal that feeds on plants, its main food is lichen and moss . It also eats willow leaves, grass and fresh mushrooms. People have domesticated the reindeer for thousands of years. They are not only good transport tools on the snow, but also give people meat, milk, fat, skin hair. Its horn is also used as medicine.