I have a question for you, why hasn’t Santa ever gotten lost during his annual trek around the world on Christmas Eve? Well, his reindeer just might be female and don’t mind stopping for directions.According to Alice Blue-McLendon, a veterinary medicine professor at Texas A&M University who specializes in deer, points to the antlers as evidence. As it turns out, reindeer grow antlers regardless of gender, and most bull males shed theirs before Christmas. This leads to her theory of Santa’s team being comprised of females.
Greg Finstad disagrees. Finstad manages the Reindeer Research Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and he believes that the reindeer that pull Santa’s sleigh are castrated (Ouch) males know as steers.
He argues that female reindeer could not possibly pull Santa’s sleigh because most females would be pregnant and expecting. Bulls would have shed their antlers by Christmas and been tuckered out from rutting season, so that would leave steers as the only likely reindeer to pull Santa’s sleigh.
I have to agree, there's just no way females are pulling that sleigh. Why do I say this? It's a guy thing, there's just no way. All those toys, at supersonic speed, racing around the world in 24 hours, it's a job only guys could handle and appreciate.
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