Biologist to answer the biology questions!! Yes, reindeer/caribou are the only species of deer where the females typically grow antlers, though they’re much smaller than on males. And yes, they do keep their antlers through the winter (they are pregnant through the winter, and probably use their antlers to defend areas where they’ve cleared snow away to find food underneath) Reindeer are not the only species to grow new antlers every year. That trait is common to all deer species that have antlers (some don’t have them). This is something that separates Antlers (made of bone, grow and shed each year) from horns (bone core with a keratin sheath, grow continuously throughout life). Animals relying on shed reindeer antlers for nutrition: sort of true. They don’t get calories from antlers, but they’re a valuable source of calcium and phosphorus. Most animals will gnaw on shed antlers (of any deer) at least a little if given the opportunity. Reindeer as one of the first domesticated animals: eh, depends on how many species are in that ‘the first’ category. Dogs were almost certainly the first, then either sheep or goats. But it took humans a very long time to get from Africa to anywhere that reindeer lived. Running speed: yeah, sure. One-day old calf outrunning an adult human: yes, for a while. reindeer are prey animals, they have to be able to stand/walk/run very quickly after birth. Also, humans don’t run that fast. We’re persistence predators. We chase things to exhaustion by maintaining a slower speed, but for a much longer time. Hooves changing with seasons: apparently this happens. I think cow hooves will also change to a lesser extent based on what kind of ground they’re walking on. At least The Hoof GP comments on the differences between cows kept on straw (indoors) vs on pasture. I’m surprised that she didn’t include the factoid that some subspecies have a tendon in their ankle that makes an audible ‘click’ as they walk, probably to help the herd stay together in the dark, or in whiteout conditions. They are safest in large groups, so anything that lets them find the group more easily is going to be a benefit.
We had a female deer with a single antler last fall. It was srunted and gnarly like a little tree root. It is very rare we have lots of deer around the house especially in winter and I've only seen it in person on the one deer
Exactly. One interesting thing I'd like to add is that, the antlers on all deer, like horns, cause the animals to always suffer from osteoporosis, but, since deer & sheep are ruminants, having multi-chambered stomachs, they don't suffer from it to the same degree that, say a theoretical unicorn (at least the "horned-horse" theory of it) would.
@@RextheDragon881 ruminants all belong to artiodactyla which are the even toed ungulates. (Hooved mammals) Equines (horses, donkeys, zebras) are in the odd toed order that I cannot remember the name of for her life of me. Odd toed also includes tapirs and rhinos. :) (obviously not the same family as horses lol) I wish horses were ruminants because their digestive system is a complete disaster that makes them prone to lots of lovely vet bill inducing issues, usually falling under the umbrella of “colic” but cause by everything from gas, to impactions, to obstruction from enteroliths. (Enteroliths are an awesome fear I unlocked a few years ago. It’s when they get some sort of indigestible object like a bit of baling twine or a small stone in their gut and the body starts depositing minerals around the object(s) then sometimes these get pooped out. But sometimes they just grow. And then once they’re too small to pass all the way through the intestines, they decide to try and get stuck. Because the horse intestine NARROWS before the exit because that’s a fanTAStic design. 🤦♀️ Thanks Mother Nature.) Their peristalsis is also one way so they can’t throw up. And they’re obligate nose breathers so anything that obstructs their nostrils will suffocate them. Oh but if they get a blockage stuff CAN get forced back up and into their nasal cavity where it can then be inhaled and cause aspiration pneumonia. (Pant pant pant) sigh. Horses campaign for no there is no intelligent design unless the designer was a mean spirited drunk. But I love them anyway. (Apologies for the off topic horse rant)
I so much prefer the Anna videos over the Amber videos. You have a lot more interesting things to work with there and I really appreciate how your anthropology background comes in clutch. I’m sorry she gives you a nervous breakdown though. 😊
There’s definitely more entertainment value and more interesting content to work with unpacking Anna videos. With Amber videos there’s that element of discomfort knowing how malignant she continues to be to other people. These days when it comes to watchin’ muh stories, Anna is my first pick.
I was so dumbfounded by the "tripping reindeer" tale that I went digging. (Tho I bet this comment will get flagged for "words" lol)🦌 1. It was not "magic mushrooms", it's specifically Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria).🍄Just to clarify for anyone who thinks it's a good idea to eat random things off the forest floor for fun. 2. Through the 2010s there are a load of websites mentioning this phenomenon, but none citing sources. Google Scholar also shows many results in the last 20 years which vaguely reference this story, again without evidence. 3. The main source seems to be 1972's "Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality" by R. Gordon Wasson. His premise basically is that the semi-legendary elixir "soma" in Hindu/Vedic mythology came originally from far-Northeastern Siberian shamanistic practices. His sources for the use of mushroom-urine come mostly from memoir type reports from the 18th and early 19th centuries by foreign "explorers" (sometimes unreliable; though as you say, I think it's agreed the use of entheogenic mushrooms in Siberian shamanic practice is true). Actually, most of the urine used seems to be *human urine*, though collecting from reindeer or cattle also seems to be a thing with some groups. He does not mention flying reindeer hallucinations that I could find, though I just skimmed the book and also didn't look super close at the sources. Wasson claims that reindeer get an addiction to human urine -- this maybe has a spot of truth, look up "Aggressive Goats Addicted to Human Urine Airlifted Out of Olympic National Park". 🐐He also claims they love fly agaric, but cites no sources for either of these with a dismissive "All reindeer folk know of these two addictions (how could they not know about them?)". (Maybe worth noting Mr. Wasson did attempt to "test" various psychedelic mushrooms himself; it was the 60s 🤷) 4. I also want to note that typically when (American) people think of "reindeer" they're thinking of the Sámi people of Northern Scandinavia, and not the far-Eastern Siberian peoples, which is where this whole mushroom-urine legend comes from. In other words, the idea that modern-Christmas-celebrating Western Europeans somehow absorbed the idea that reindeer can fly via pre-Christian "pagans" is completely false. To Anna's credit, she's just repeating 100 other misinfo-spreading people, including supposed professionals. 🤦It seems to be part of the now-discredited idea of "universal Shamanism" and/or that all circumpolar peoples are homogeneous. (I know that Sámi people have ceremonial art which often show spiritual "worlds" and animals...though I really doubt that was the inspiration for Santa's flying reindeer.) As an anthropologist, I'm sure you can see a hundred more "problematic" bits with this whole story I won't bother describing....it's definitely a doozy. 🤦
There are few aspects to the shamanism of the indigenous people of the North and the Far East of Russia that might vaguely associate reindeer with flying, but nothing as trite as getting high and hallucinating it.
You just get more and more exasperated with her with each video, and it’s just so funny. I’m with you on how insensitive she is, and I’m amazed at how she keeps getting stuff wrong, but I kind of wish this series would go on forever For the sake of your sanity though, I hope there aren’t many of these left 😄
Yeah so have I. I hate to give her credit but shes not talking out of Her ass completely. She does still gloss over so much on the proper context of everything she talks about.
🦌Terence McKenna had some entertaining ideas about Chrtistmas imagery that might have originated from the shamanic use of amanita muscaria mushrooms. He talked about the red and white color, elves/ knomes, and flying reindeer. I wouldn't call them "facts" lol but it is fun to delve into his ideas.
All species of deer shed their antlers and regrow them annually. (Including moose :) )Other deer are also mammals. That was just a bizarre statement. I appreciated the rage because it makes me feel not alone. Just.. wtf. 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌
Yes! I'm hanging out with some deer out back right now. I try to find deer antlers in the winter and I have a few but unfortunately most of the bucks get shot during hunting season before they shed them.
I think Anna meant that PEOPLE would eat psychedelic mushrooms and then PERCEIVE that the reindeer were flying because the people were high. I don’t think she meant that the reindeer were doing mushrooms… but your reaction was hilarious either way 😂
@ribbit796 no she was right on that the deer eat the mushrooms and then the urine is collected to make the people have a trip. So I don't know if the idea of flying reindeer came from that culture that would do that or if the guy that wrote the story heard about the practice and then made up the idea of flying reindeer. But this is all things Anna should and could have explained in her video.
@@queerdor I also think it's possible that they look flying in very old art just because it's primitive art and alot of things kinda look floating alone as it's basic representations. But I couldn't be further from an expert I'm basically an adult baby
I need you to know I was listening to this at work and several times had to bite my tongue (yes, actually, physically bite my tongue) to stop myself laughing 😂 I've also heard the thing about the myth of flying reindeer originating from ye olden times people being stoned out of their minds before
I've been to a reindeer farm in Scotland - they're surprisingly small. I'm picturing some small 19th century Scandinavian child asking their story-telling parent how the reindeer can deliver all the presents because they can't go that fast and the parent throwing up their hands and saying, "because they fly, okay!"
Problem here is that we had a goat instead of reindeer. At least in Finland, we do get told of the old pagan traditions and storys. When also translating directly Joulupukki (Santa Claus), it translate as following: Joulu = Yule and Pukki = Goat. Joulupukki only had one goat with him to deliver presents. I can also remember a drawing of Joulupukki whearing a Purple coat.
17:09 I just picture a John wick style beat down with slime! 🤣 also I do think Anna's "facts" could possibly have been made up on her own drug trip 🤷🏼♀️🤣 either I got a good laugh out of this video!!
The reindeer flying myth is believed to come from behavior thst most deer species exhibit during rut/mating season ie jumping high, or long off hills and flying was the oral storytelling tradtional description just wasn't for Santa or Christmas but more of heroes following the lost herd. On reindeer shedding antlers they do shed them and despite being herbivores will engage in osteophagia aka the eating of bones. I'm using my biology degree in strange ways today
🦌 Yeah… um also… not only can the reindeer run pretty fast… They are also actually running. Not filming walking fast and saying on ReindeerThreads that they ran.
The Franklin Institute has a nice page dedicated to reindeer that is concise and easy to understand. Lots of facts in a short article. They specifically mention bats are the only mammals able to fly.
The names of the Reindeer are already americanized. "Blitzen" is the wrong grammar for a name. The noun meaning lightning is "der Blitz" (yes, like in "Blitzkrieg"). At least in today's grammar. "blitzen" as a verb means to flash (what the lightning does). There is the noun "das Blitzen", but it is not usually used when referring to thunder and lightning. We would say "Donner und Blitz".
Ok, my theory, it's Blitzen because of the metre, it's a tetrasyllabus, it wouldn't have worked with Blitz, just needed another syllable for the rhythm
So much in her christmas videos are about butchering Scandinavian and Sapmi history. As an aspiring anthropologist from Sweden it's painful to see her disrespect our indigenous peoples.
About the flying reindeer... As Jól - the old norse word for christmas we still use - is strongly associated with Odin, who was also called Jól father or Father Christmas. It was at this last time of the year that Odin could be seen riding his eight-legged horse Slejpnir across the sky and visiting people in their homes. It does somehow sound familar doesnt it :-)
Weird fact I’ve held on to since seeing a video about arctic animals at school: a reindeer’s normal diet occasionally includes hallucinogenic mushrooms but might have been that reindeer are immune to them, not sure. I don’t think humans fed the mushrooms to them though. 😂
A huge part of Lapland is in Finland btw, so not only Scandinavian countries, Northern Europe is correct. Also, the sápmi are still very much alive? Weird source, just thought I’d correct some things lol
Holiday video 🎶 took me way back to, pop up video 🎶 We have a reindeer farm between Tucson and phoenix.. well technically it’s the ostrich farm but they have reindeer too
I'm German and I don't care whether you americanize the names. It's your Song 🦌 I don't know what happens with the rhyme in that case, but that's your problem not mine 😛 Besides that I think the video style is inefficient, because you can't read the fact and look at the outfit at the same time.
I feel like Anna did absolutely no research and is just spouting off Christmas "facts" she heard somewhere without double-checking to see if they are true. I've heard the reindeer one before, but I have no idea if it is true or not and would never quote something like that without a source.
Everything Anna explains in videos has the energy and depth of a 4th grader or Trump explaining a concept. Just the bare minimum of thought and context of a subject. Are some facts actually true sure but when pieces of wrong information or things that need to be explained in depth get in there,it's well this might not be right but at least it sounds good soundbite.
Oh dear now Im wondering how many times ive been guilty of the naughty words 😂 have to edit again....i have managed to keep the naughty words to myself in my house but my corgis are looking at me like ive lost my mind
Wern't the Finish people Migratory? Didin't they follow their herds? My knowldege of ingenious Europeans is sketchy - I did NA and Central American Anthro.
The casual racism and cultural insensitivity and disrespect in these videos are so painful to listen to 💀 Thunder and Lightning sound better because they’re LESS GERMANIC?!?! And that’s not even 1 minute into the video
Donner and Blitzen were originally named Dunder and Blixem in the first publication of the. Dunder became Donder and Blixem became Blitzen Donder became Donner in the 1939 publication of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Dunder to Doner is believed to be a typo and Blixem to Blitzen it was changed from the Dutch word to the German word for lightning. If you look up the Wikipedia for 'Twas the night before Christmas they have the original entry in the Troy Sentinel. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas If both male and female reindeers have antlers how can she say that the reindeers pulling the sleigh are female?
Biologist to answer the biology questions!!
Yes, reindeer/caribou are the only species of deer where the females typically grow antlers, though they’re much smaller than on males. And yes, they do keep their antlers through the winter (they are pregnant through the winter, and probably use their antlers to defend areas where they’ve cleared snow away to find food underneath)
Reindeer are not the only species to grow new antlers every year. That trait is common to all deer species that have antlers (some don’t have them). This is something that separates Antlers (made of bone, grow and shed each year) from horns (bone core with a keratin sheath, grow continuously throughout life).
Animals relying on shed reindeer antlers for nutrition: sort of true. They don’t get calories from antlers, but they’re a valuable source of calcium and phosphorus. Most animals will gnaw on shed antlers (of any deer) at least a little if given the opportunity.
Reindeer as one of the first domesticated animals: eh, depends on how many species are in that ‘the first’ category. Dogs were almost certainly the first, then either sheep or goats. But it took humans a very long time to get from Africa to anywhere that reindeer lived.
Running speed: yeah, sure.
One-day old calf outrunning an adult human: yes, for a while. reindeer are prey animals, they have to be able to stand/walk/run very quickly after birth. Also, humans don’t run that fast. We’re persistence predators. We chase things to exhaustion by maintaining a slower speed, but for a much longer time.
Hooves changing with seasons: apparently this happens. I think cow hooves will also change to a lesser extent based on what kind of ground they’re walking on. At least The Hoof GP comments on the differences between cows kept on straw (indoors) vs on pasture.
I’m surprised that she didn’t include the factoid that some subspecies have a tendon in their ankle that makes an audible ‘click’ as they walk, probably to help the herd stay together in the dark, or in whiteout conditions. They are safest in large groups, so anything that lets them find the group more easily is going to be a benefit.
Yes, facts!
We had a female deer with a single antler last fall. It was srunted and gnarly like a little tree root. It is very rare we have lots of deer around the house especially in winter and I've only seen it in person on the one deer
Exactly.
One interesting thing I'd like to add is that, the antlers on all deer, like horns, cause the animals to always suffer from osteoporosis, but, since deer & sheep are ruminants, having multi-chambered stomachs, they don't suffer from it to the same degree that, say a theoretical unicorn (at least the "horned-horse" theory of it) would.
@MollyOKami interesting. I would of thought horses had the multi stomach setup like deer and cows.
@@RextheDragon881 ruminants all belong to artiodactyla which are the even toed ungulates. (Hooved mammals) Equines (horses, donkeys, zebras) are in the odd toed order that I cannot remember the name of for her life of me. Odd toed also includes tapirs and rhinos. :) (obviously not the same family as horses lol)
I wish horses were ruminants because their digestive system is a complete disaster that makes them prone to lots of lovely vet bill inducing issues, usually falling under the umbrella of “colic” but cause by everything from gas, to impactions, to obstruction from enteroliths. (Enteroliths are an awesome fear I unlocked a few years ago. It’s when they get some sort of indigestible object like a bit of baling twine or a small stone in their gut and the body starts depositing minerals around the object(s) then sometimes these get pooped out. But sometimes they just grow. And then once they’re too small to pass all the way through the intestines, they decide to try and get stuck. Because the horse intestine NARROWS before the exit because that’s a fanTAStic design. 🤦♀️ Thanks Mother Nature.) Their peristalsis is also one way so they can’t throw up. And they’re obligate nose breathers so anything that obstructs their nostrils will suffocate them. Oh but if they get a blockage stuff CAN get forced back up and into their nasal cavity where it can then be inhaled and cause aspiration pneumonia. (Pant pant pant) sigh.
Horses campaign for no there is no intelligent design unless the designer was a mean spirited drunk. But I love them anyway. (Apologies for the off topic horse rant)
"That reindeer ate psychedelic mushrooms. Better drink its piss."
-Some ancient stoner, apparently
right?
I so much prefer the Anna videos over the Amber videos. You have a lot more interesting things to work with there and I really appreciate how your anthropology background comes in clutch. I’m sorry she gives you a nervous breakdown though. 😊
There’s definitely more entertainment value and more interesting content to work with unpacking Anna videos. With Amber videos there’s that element of discomfort knowing how malignant she continues to be to other people. These days when it comes to watchin’ muh stories, Anna is my first pick.
@@puppycat9412i find Amber and hence videos on her absolutely boring too. Anna rocks 😃
Tiny having an emotional breakdown over high reindeers 😂
Not what I expected but definitely enjoyable crazy.
“Three chipmunks in a trench coat” 🐿️🐿️🐿️🧥 😂
Yeah, that killed me too😂😂😂
Welcome to Mormon racism 101.... look up nephites and lamanites
Don't forget the curse of red and curse of Kain which as of 2019 was added back to the website as approved teachings
I was so dumbfounded by the "tripping reindeer" tale that I went digging. (Tho I bet this comment will get flagged for "words" lol)🦌
1. It was not "magic mushrooms", it's specifically Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria).🍄Just to clarify for anyone who thinks it's a good idea to eat random things off the forest floor for fun.
2. Through the 2010s there are a load of websites mentioning this phenomenon, but none citing sources. Google Scholar also shows many results in the last 20 years which vaguely reference this story, again without evidence.
3. The main source seems to be 1972's "Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality" by R. Gordon Wasson. His premise basically is that the semi-legendary elixir "soma" in Hindu/Vedic mythology came originally from far-Northeastern Siberian shamanistic practices.
His sources for the use of mushroom-urine come mostly from memoir type reports from the 18th and early 19th centuries by foreign "explorers" (sometimes unreliable; though as you say, I think it's agreed the use of entheogenic mushrooms in Siberian shamanic practice is true). Actually, most of the urine used seems to be *human urine*, though collecting from reindeer or cattle also seems to be a thing with some groups. He does not mention flying reindeer hallucinations that I could find, though I just skimmed the book and also didn't look super close at the sources.
Wasson claims that reindeer get an addiction to human urine -- this maybe has a spot of truth, look up "Aggressive Goats Addicted to Human Urine Airlifted Out of Olympic National Park". 🐐He also claims they love fly agaric, but cites no sources for either of these with a dismissive "All reindeer folk know of these two addictions (how could they not know about them?)".
(Maybe worth noting Mr. Wasson did attempt to "test" various psychedelic mushrooms himself; it was the 60s 🤷)
4. I also want to note that typically when (American) people think of "reindeer" they're thinking of the Sámi people of Northern Scandinavia, and not the far-Eastern Siberian peoples, which is where this whole mushroom-urine legend comes from. In other words, the idea that modern-Christmas-celebrating Western Europeans somehow absorbed the idea that reindeer can fly via pre-Christian "pagans" is completely false. To Anna's credit, she's just repeating 100 other misinfo-spreading people, including supposed professionals. 🤦It seems to be part of the now-discredited idea of "universal Shamanism" and/or that all circumpolar peoples are homogeneous.
(I know that Sámi people have ceremonial art which often show spiritual "worlds" and animals...though I really doubt that was the inspiration for Santa's flying reindeer.)
As an anthropologist, I'm sure you can see a hundred more "problematic" bits with this whole story I won't bother describing....it's definitely a doozy. 🤦
thanks for the deep dive though! I wondered where the mushroom thing had come from
Thanks for this, so interesting!
Glad I could help lol....is it better or worse than Christmas Mayans though? 🤔
This video killed me 😂😂 thank you for your service
10:40 ‘caribou’ is the name for reindeer in North America. They’re the same animal though
There are few aspects to the shamanism of the indigenous people of the North and the Far East of Russia that might vaguely associate reindeer with flying, but nothing as trite as getting high and hallucinating it.
I saw someone call her Bitter & Lazers!
You just get more and more exasperated with her with each video, and it’s just so funny. I’m with you on how insensitive she is, and I’m amazed at how she keeps getting stuff wrong, but I kind of wish this series would go on forever
For the sake of your sanity though, I hope there aren’t many of these left 😄
You are over half way through these and doing great job en-🦌ing these.
I've heard of the mushroom and reindeer lol
The Sami peoples used mushrooms
I want some of them shrooms. I wanna fly too 🤣
Yeah so have I. I hate to give her credit but shes not talking out of
Her ass completely. She does still gloss over so much on the proper context of everything she talks about.
I am genuinely enjoying this series
🦌Terence McKenna had some entertaining ideas about Chrtistmas imagery that might have originated from the shamanic use of amanita muscaria mushrooms. He talked about the red and white color, elves/ knomes, and flying reindeer. I wouldn't call them "facts" lol but it is fun to delve into his ideas.
That’s interesting
🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌Thank you for taking these for the team! 🦌🦌🦌🦌
Oh no guys, we're too well behaved in the comments. Time to go feral 😂
Noooooooooo
All species of deer shed their antlers and regrow them annually. (Including moose :) )Other deer are also mammals. That was just a bizarre statement.
I appreciated the rage because it makes me feel not alone. Just.. wtf.
🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌
Yes! I'm hanging out with some deer out back right now. I try to find deer antlers in the winter and I have a few but unfortunately most of the bucks get shot during hunting season before they shed them.
I think Anna meant that PEOPLE would eat psychedelic mushrooms and then PERCEIVE that the reindeer were flying because the people were high. I don’t think she meant that the reindeer were doing mushrooms… but your reaction was hilarious either way 😂
@ribbit796 no she was right on that the deer eat the mushrooms and then the urine is collected to make the people have a trip. So I don't know if the idea of flying reindeer came from that culture that would do that or if the guy that wrote the story heard about the practice and then made up the idea of flying reindeer. But this is all things Anna should and could have explained in her video.
@@queerdor I also think it's possible that they look flying in very old art just because it's primitive art and alot of things kinda look floating alone as it's basic representations. But I couldn't be further from an expert I'm basically an adult baby
No, the mushrooms are too dangerous for people to eat. It must be filtered through the caribou's kidneys/liver first
@@queerdor wait, really!? That’s wild. Either way, Anna doesn’t explain things very well… or maybe I wasn’t paying close attention.
@ribbit796 yeah it's true I watched a documentary about it years ago. And your correct she doesn't explain herself well at all.
I need you to know I was listening to this at work and several times had to bite my tongue (yes, actually, physically bite my tongue) to stop myself laughing 😂 I've also heard the thing about the myth of flying reindeer originating from ye olden times people being stoned out of their minds before
I've been to a reindeer farm in Scotland - they're surprisingly small.
I'm picturing some small 19th century Scandinavian child asking their story-telling parent how the reindeer can deliver all the presents because they can't go that fast and the parent throwing up their hands and saying, "because they fly, okay!"
Problem here is that we had a goat instead of reindeer. At least in Finland, we do get told of the old pagan traditions and storys. When also translating directly Joulupukki (Santa Claus), it translate as following: Joulu = Yule and Pukki = Goat. Joulupukki only had one goat with him to deliver presents. I can also remember a drawing of Joulupukki whearing a Purple coat.
I’m in Sweden and I have same friends and reindeer meat is very tasty!
I hope the reindeer weren't your friends😂😂😂
17:09 I just picture a John wick style beat down with slime! 🤣 also I do think Anna's "facts" could possibly have been made up on her own drug trip 🤷🏼♀️🤣 either I got a good laugh out of this video!!
" I might have screwed this up" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The reindeer flying myth is believed to come from behavior thst most deer species exhibit during rut/mating season ie jumping high, or long off hills and flying was the oral storytelling tradtional description just wasn't for Santa or Christmas but more of heroes following the lost herd. On reindeer shedding antlers they do shed them and despite being herbivores will engage in osteophagia aka the eating of bones. I'm using my biology degree in strange ways today
🦌 Yeah… um also… not only can the reindeer run pretty fast… They are also actually running. Not filming walking fast and saying on ReindeerThreads that they ran.
I see you
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist 😹😻😹
😂
Idc how fast a reindeer can run I need to know how fast they can fly, Anna! 🙄
🦌
The Franklin Institute has a nice page dedicated to reindeer that is concise and easy to understand. Lots of facts in a short article. They specifically mention bats are the only mammals able to fly.
The names of the Reindeer are already americanized.
"Blitzen" is the wrong grammar for a name. The noun meaning lightning is "der Blitz" (yes, like in "Blitzkrieg"). At least in today's grammar. "blitzen" as a verb means to flash (what the lightning does).
There is the noun "das Blitzen", but it is not usually used when referring to thunder and lightning. We would say "Donner und Blitz".
Ok, my theory, it's Blitzen because of the metre, it's a tetrasyllabus, it wouldn't have worked with Blitz, just needed another syllable for the rhythm
So much in her christmas videos are about butchering Scandinavian and Sapmi history. As an aspiring anthropologist from Sweden it's painful to see her disrespect our indigenous peoples.
About the flying reindeer... As Jól - the old norse word for christmas we still use - is strongly associated with Odin, who was also called Jól father or Father Christmas.
It was at this last time of the year that Odin could be seen riding his eight-legged horse Slejpnir across the sky and visiting people in their homes.
It does somehow sound familar doesnt it :-)
I actually don't mind Anna having fun with those little fun facts, folklore can be wild sometimes 🤷♂️
This was wild. 😂 🦌
santa's reindeer fly because how else is he supposed to get across the entire globe in one night if they don't!!
I like to think Anna is just time-travel punking Tiny Blue
Excuse me while I go spread some misinformation about reindeers doing shrooms 😂
3 chipmunks in a trenchcoat😂😂😂😂
🦌🦌Anna hurts my brain.
Did these christmas facts come from her christmas crackers? 😂
No, lol. Anna's 'facts' come from her 'psychedelic' jumpers. I've heard even thinking about buying one of them can send you orbiting globally forever.
Weird fact I’ve held on to since seeing a video about arctic animals at school: a reindeer’s normal diet occasionally includes hallucinogenic mushrooms but might have been that reindeer are immune to them, not sure. I don’t think humans fed the mushrooms to them though. 😂
Moose also shed their antlers.
Omg Anna, thanks for the throbbing headache 🤕
Saying we are well behaved is an open invitation to chaos haha or a hectic type deal
10:42 moooose🫎
Moose and reindeer are actually both in the deer family, Cervidae.
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A huge part of Lapland is in Finland btw, so not only Scandinavian countries, Northern Europe is correct. Also, the sápmi are still very much alive? Weird source, just thought I’d correct some things lol
Yay! More holiday misinformation from Anna! 🎄
🦌 fun drinking game: drink every time Anna makes you cringe
If you haven’t watched the first three, do it! They are so great. 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Just starting this one and am already excited! 😀
The middle finger for both Jews and Germans? I have so much to say about that 😂😂
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No icon but reindeer :)
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I have a short haired blonde overweight friend who makes this exact same claim about reindeers and mushrooms. What?
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Holiday hoobie what-ee?
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I wonder if she purposely made this stuff up thinking nobody would question her.
Holiday video 🎶 took me way back to, pop up video 🎶
We have a reindeer farm between Tucson and phoenix.. well technically it’s the ostrich farm but they have reindeer too
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I'm German and I don't care whether you americanize the names. It's your Song 🦌 I don't know what happens with the rhyme in that case, but that's your problem not mine 😛 Besides that I think the video style is inefficient, because you can't read the fact and look at the outfit at the same time.
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I feel like Anna did absolutely no research and is just spouting off Christmas "facts" she heard somewhere without double-checking to see if they are true. I've heard the reindeer one before, but I have no idea if it is true or not and would never quote something like that without a source.
About the comments: because you give the space in livestreams for the feral chat (?)
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Everything Anna explains in videos has the energy and depth of a 4th grader or Trump explaining a concept. Just the bare minimum of thought and context of a subject. Are some facts actually true sure but when pieces of wrong information or things that need to be explained in depth get in there,it's well this might not be right but at least it sounds good soundbite.
Oh dear now Im wondering how many times ive been guilty of the naughty words 😂 have to edit again....i have managed to keep the naughty words to myself in my house but my corgis are looking at me like ive lost my mind
They know. They are judging.
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Wern't the Finish people Migratory? Didin't they follow their herds? My knowldege of ingenious Europeans is sketchy - I did NA and Central American Anthro.
maybe? It would make sense.
Finnish people aren’t the indigenous people in the Nordic’s, the Sami’s are. The Finnish are just people from Finland.
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She just makes crap up. She did it then and still does it. She does the same hours and hours and hours and hours of research as Amberlynn.
Also- its pronounced more like SAW-me, not 'sammy'
And Caribou tend to be larger than reindeer
Sorry if Im anoying, this got under my skin
Sorry, I didn't know how to pronounce it.
@TinyBlueAnthropologist not a rude thing, just a heads up in case you do come across it. Sorry if I came off as mean- more mad at Anna than anything
The casual racism and cultural insensitivity and disrespect in these videos are so painful to listen to 💀 Thunder and Lightning sound better because they’re LESS GERMANIC?!?! And that’s not even 1 minute into the video
Donner and Blitzen were originally named Dunder and Blixem in the first publication of the. Dunder became Donder and Blixem became Blitzen Donder became Donner in the 1939 publication of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Dunder to Doner is believed to be a typo and Blixem to Blitzen it was changed from the Dutch word to the German word for lightning. If you look up the Wikipedia for 'Twas the night before Christmas they have the original entry in the Troy Sentinel.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas
If both male and female reindeers have antlers how can she say that the reindeers pulling the sleigh are female?
I think because she said the females grow antlers in the winter when males lose theirs. Therefore, antlers in winter mean female.
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