Are Santa's reindeer male or female?

gmackematix

The reindeer named in Clement C. Moore's poem mostly have fairly unisex names like Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Donner and Blixen although I imagine Vixen is surely female and Cupid is surely male. Rudolph, first referred to in the 1949 Johnny Marks classic song about "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" clearly has a male name. If these were normal reindeer, the males would lose their antlers shortly before Christmas which is at odds with our view of antlered reindeer pulling the sleigh. Females don't lose their antlers until the New Year. These arguments maybe don't hold true for Santa's magic flying reindeer. So on current evidence the genders remain indeterminate. http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_visit_from_st_nicholas.htm Dec 21 03, 10:36 PM

griffinj

The European Comission and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game say they are all female. Is Santa guilty of sexual discrimination? http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/reindeer.asp http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_432318.html?menu=news.weirdworld.sexlife Possibly some may have been young bulls, and some may have been neutered males. http://petcaretips.net/santas-reindeer.html "We should have known: only women would be able to drag a fat-ass guy in a red velvet suit all around the world in one night and not get lost." Dec 22 03, 1:04 AM

JerZeGirl

Actually, some young male reindeer can keep their antlers well into the new year (whether because of diet or genetics), therefore it is not impossible for at least one of Santa's reindeer to have been male. It would, though, be quite another thing to assume they were all male - that is, of course, if Santa wasn't capable of escaping all laws of physics as we know them. And, since we know he can and does operate outside the time/space continuum, we can assume that, if he were to choose to do so, he COULD have all male reindeer pulling his sleigh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer "Both sexes grow antlers, which (in the Scandinavian variety) for old males fall off in December, for young males in the early spring, and for females, summer." [Added reference - McG] Dec 23 07, 8:07 PM

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