Reindeer's Amazing Adaptations to Living in Snow | Snow Animals | BBC Earth Kids

From having real-life red noses to UV vision, reindeer are fully adapted to live in cold climates. But, as we learn, their hooves are a little ill-suited to walking on ice...

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Taken from 'Natural World: Snow Animals' (2016).

Gordon Buchanan meets the animals who live in nature's winter wonderlands. He reveals their survival secrets, from the polar bear mother who gives her cubs the best possible start in life to the owl that finds food hidden beneath a blanket of snow, plus the plucky penguins that huddle together to keep warm. Gordon also unwraps the lives of our favourite Christmas characters: those wonderful reindeer and our very own robin redbreast!

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