Both male and female reindeer grow antlers. This is a trait that no other species in the deer family possesses. The reason, a peculiar result of circumstances and biological luck, ...

Both male and female reindeer grow antlers. This is a trait that no other species in the deer family possesses. The reason, a peculiar result of circumstances and biological luck, reflects.

Each year after the breeding season ends, male reindeer shed their impressive, branching antlers that they grow. Lenni, the six-year-old European forest reindeer at Scotland's Highland Wildlife ...

Male reindeer tend to drop their antlers before Christmas, while females wait until after the holiday season. (This means that Santa’s squad is mostly likely all-female.) ...

Male reindeer drop their antlers after the rutting season ends and females do the same after the calving season between May and June. Reindeer have the fastest growing antlers in the world as the ...

A post with more than 100,000 likes says all of Santa’s reindeer are female because male reindeer lose their antlers before Christmas, but that’s not entirely true.

Whatever biological reasons cause natural variability, I see no reason why Rudolph can’t retain his traditional role as a male reindeer and keep his antlers until Dec. 26.

The original Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer was a fictional character created in a booklet written by Robert May for Christmas 1939. Almost all male deer grow antlers and they use these to fight ...