Reindeer Visit Laura Richards School!

Students at Laura E. Richards School enjoyed a special visit from Peppermint, a reindeer, and Baby, a fallow deer. Candis Veilleux is their caretaker and shared many intersting facts about the deer.

Second graders from Mrs. Canning's class recalled the following facts:

•The predators of reindeer are bears and wolves.
•When they walk, they make clicking sounds with their feet.
•Reindeer like to stay in the shade.
•Reindeer, elk, and caribou are the only females that can have antlers.
•Reindeer don't eat meat.
•They can live in 80 degree below zero weather.
•They can live to be 15 years old.
•They have dewclaws on their feet so that they can walk on ice.
•In the summer their fur turns black but their mane remains white.
•They can run 18 miles an hour.
•Females lose their antlers in May.
•Reindeer have four stomachs.