Apart from a brief Christmas flurry, most of Santa's reindeer lead almost completely carefree lives in the wild.
They are healthy herd animals which roam over many miles of the Arctic Circle with the Lapps, or Sami tribesmen, who farm them, rounding them up periodically to confirm ownership and take an annual harvest of meat and skins.
Though seemingly wild, reindeer have in fact been semi-domesticated for 10,000 years, with traditional herders in Scandinavia and the wilder reaches of northern Europe, Asia and Alaska.
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