Santa Claus’s reindeer form an imaginary team of flying reindeer traditionally held to pull the sleigh of Santa Claus and help him deliver Christmas gifts. I fired Santa this year, I didn’t need to deliver gifts on the night before Christmas! Oh yeah... oh yeah... oh yeah, my lovely Christmas Eve `_>` The commonly cited names of the reindeer are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. They are based on those used in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (commonly called “The Night Before Christmas”), which is arguably the basis of reindeer’s popularity as Christmas symbols, and in which Donner and Blitzen were originally called Dunder and Blixem respectively

Père David’s deer (Elaphurus davidianus), also known as the milu (Chinese: 麋鹿; pinyin: mílù) or elaphure, is a species of deer that is currently extinct in the wild—all known specimens are found only in captivity. This semiaquatic animal prefers marshland, and is native to the subtropics of China. It grazes mainly on grass and aquatic plants. It is the only extant member of the genus Elaphurus. Based on genetic comparisons, Père David’s deer is closely related to the deer of the genus Cervus, leading many experts to suggest merging Elaphurus into Cervus^[1] or demoting Elaphurus to a subgenus of Cervus.

[1] Pitra, C.; Fickel, J.; Meijaard, E.; Groves, C. (1 December 2004). “Evolution and phylogeny of old world deer”. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33 (3): 880–895.

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