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Rosie the Reindeer (8/26)

This is also part of this series: All About Animals (26)

Subjects: Animal Behaviour, Animals, Evolution, Natural History, Nature

Grade Level: K-Gr3
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 25 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2004
Available in French: No

Rosie lives in the Ivvavik National Park in Canada. She is just four days old. In Northern Europe, she would be called a Reindeer, but in North America and Canada, she has another name too – Caribou. This is an Native American name and means ‘one that shovels' – because reindeer can use their feet to act as snow shovels, digging down to the plants for forage. Both male and female reindeer sprout new antlers every year; they take 3-6 months to grow. Rosie's mumis now three years old and Rosie is her first calf. Reindeer are travellers, always on the move. Before this time next year, Rosie will have covered 4,000 kilometres, trekking between 19 and 55 kilometres a day. And when they want to, reindeer can run at 80 kilometres per hour. Itgets cold in this part of Canada in winter, but Rosie is well protected. She has 800 hairs per square centimetre. Finding food is the main challenge. Lichen is the most nutritious food reindeer can get during the winter. They rely on their noses and are able to sniff it out, even when it is buried under 60 centimetres of snow!

Links: http://http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/

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