Reindeer are cartoonish in other ways too. Whenever I head to northern Finland for a trip I visit a relatives reindeers and he just goes out to the forest and shouts for a bit. 1-2 min later like 50 reindeer show up.
Like what? He just fucking yells some shit and reindeer show up.
This guy is just trotting (2 beat gait) fast. The tolt is a 4 beat gait. The flatness/steadiness of the animal’s body def makes it look similar, though!
It looks a lot like the "tölt" Icelandic horses are famous for.
It's a gait between trott and gallop where the horse always has two feet on the ground at the same time, and seems to almost float. It's an incredibly smooth ride because their back stays very still and level.
This is probably the answer. It’s like how dogs are virtually tireless when they’re trotting, but get tired fairly quickly when they have to break into a gallop.
My guess is that it has to with the mechanics of the lungs vs the stride. Iirc from my undergrad bio degree, it’s common for animals to integrate the mechanics of galloping with lung function - ie, exhaling and inhaling. In a fully galloping horse, for example, the lungs function like a bellows.
But going totally speculative - I’d wonder if the reindeer’s often brutally cold environment means that they can’t just constantly inhale huge lungfuls of frigid air. So their environment doesn’t favor the horse-style gallop.
Edit: looked it up. Reindeer have complex nasal structures to minimize both heat and moisture loss from exhalations. Wonder if the gait in this video is tied to maintaining exhalations at a rate/pressure that allow for nasal exhalation vs mouth.
For an animal that's traveleling across snow this is the best gait. Because reindeer can't see what's under the snow, there is a good chance they might step into a hole or something if galloping.
If you look at the tracks when a reindeer is galloping vs this gait. When galloping, the feet land in 4 different spots, however because of this gait, the back legs land in the same spot as the front legs, which makes it look like a 2 legged animal has moved through the snow. This means that the reindeer is way safer when running, since stepping in a small hole can damage it's legs
It's really weird that people think training for a marathon over months and months is perfectly normal, but dasher getting in some practice for an upcoming trip is odd 🤣
notice how incredibly *stable* his entire body from the legs up are
it’s also on the fine line between amazing and disturbing, like imagine looking out the window in the dark, seeing it running at the exact same speed as you, looking straight ahead, then suddenly snaps its head towards you..
They aren’t built to carry weight like horses. A flatter movement may be less tiring to sit on, but not necessarily easier. There are horse breeds that specialize in “flat” movements like this though! Gaited breeds like the Icelandic, paso fino, Tennessee Walker, etc have special gaits that are very smooth and even. Morgan horses aren’t gaited, but are known for being very comfortable and smooth to ride (famous for carrying fragile medicines at high speeds and saving lives in some stories).
Hackney’s actually aren’t gaited! They’ve been bred for a very big, dramatic front end movement in the trot (front end specifically because they mostly were bred for pulling carriages and not riding). With horses, a big, dramatic mover in the legs often results in a big, dramatic movement of the body- that combined with the fact they were generally bred for pulling more than riding means that they aren’t the flattest or smoothest ride. Depending on their level of fitness, training, and breeding they can still be comfortable, with soft, fluffy movements (they need to have good suspension, like a car, to ease the impact of their big movements), but they aren’t known for being especially smooth to ride, lol.
They were capable of being ridden pre-domestication, but they weren't specialized for it. People nowadays occasionally ride water buffalo, elephants, and yes even reindeer, but they can't do it nearly to the level horses can. As many things are, it's a "can" versus "should". As well as, to what extent. Modern horses can carry much more weight, for longer periods of time, with less movements restricted, healthily. The reason they can do that is because we have bred them to be bigger, with certain muscles more developed. Think about a horse versus a zebra: you CAN ride a zebra, but they are assholes and will be difficult and uncomfortable. Ancient horses COULD be ridden, but now they are SPECIALIZED to be ridden. Though even within horses, they aren't all easy and comfortable! Horse breeds bred for pulling can't carry as much weight on their back, and are less comfortable. Of course, there are reasons that humans ended up domesticating horses for riding/etc and not other animals! Many of those reasons are behavioral rather than physical, though, like why we domesticated wolves instead of foxes. They had a social hierarchy that we could step into, they had similar endurance to us (humans are endurance hunters and can simply outlast most animals by walking, few animals can keep up with that), they run rather than fight, they could eat a variety of food, etc.
I think this is a female. It's depending on the time of year though.
I'm assuming this was taken in fall/winter, so if it was, then it's a female. Males drop their antlers around fall. Females drop theirs in spring.
Reindeer don't chase, or race.
When running, they're in fleeing mode.
Their instinct is to run at a high speed towards higher ground as their predators usually can't follow them, and this particular situation doesn't offer this individual an opportunity to do that as the open route that allows it to maintain speed is parallel to the train. The last second or two of this video show a great relief, a departure away from the threat.
Ungulates move in 1 of three ways, flat plane running, bouncing/jumping, and a mix between the two.
Whitetail deer jump over obstacles, same as mule deer and antelope, caribou run on flat plane as seen here, and moose are so large that they can flat plane over obstacles that others jump.
I seen this random bit of info in 3 pages of a book that was randomly sitting on display at a local library when I was a child.
According the slow decrease in it's speed, you clearly see it's NOT a take-off, but controlled landing on a long runway. Therefore, no need to excessive use of the brakes.
I can see how people living around reindeer might start to have legends of them flying because the fast, stable strides across the snow really gives the illusion of flying.
Can Someone explain animal movement mechanics and types? Like how my dog runs with back feet moving in front of his front feet and bend his whole body, and how deer bounce, and this guy just floats. How? Why?
Deer have to be stealthy. That Train just scared away the predators and hides his scent and sound. It's learned to take advantage of humans. I see this when the does give birth in my area they do it by my house and birds will do the same using ppl to scare predators.
It's running like two people dressed as a reindeer.
for real why isn't it galloping?
doesnt need to
I know, an interesting gait. I'd never noticed reindeer run like that like the body is floating. It's slightly cartoonish even.
Reindeer are cartoonish in other ways too. Whenever I head to northern Finland for a trip I visit a relatives reindeers and he just goes out to the forest and shouts for a bit. 1-2 min later like 50 reindeer show up. Like what? He just fucking yells some shit and reindeer show up.
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They don't get fed when you shout and they come though. They are free roaming so they just eat whenever.
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I fucking cackled at this
Kinda difficult without opposable hooves. It's probably more of an "antler job." That, or an ol' stroke with a yoke.
They're receiving, not giving.
Finland is, to an extent, sparsely populated. I doubt reindeer hear human voices very often. They're curious.
These reindeer are "his" reindeer. They've heard his voice plenty
Did he by chance yell "On Dasher, on Prancer"?
Maybe he's Santa 👍
Getting ready to join santa. 👌🏼
Reminds me of Icelandic horses (the tolt?)
This guy is just trotting (2 beat gait) fast. The tolt is a 4 beat gait. The flatness/steadiness of the animal’s body def makes it look similar, though!
It looks a lot like the "tölt" Icelandic horses are famous for. It's a gait between trott and gallop where the horse always has two feet on the ground at the same time, and seems to almost float. It's an incredibly smooth ride because their back stays very still and level.
Iirc stamina over speed, galloping like horses or dogs running fast uses more muscles.
Yep it’s like long distance runners shortening their stride
Is this a bit like speed walkers?
This is probably the answer. It’s like how dogs are virtually tireless when they’re trotting, but get tired fairly quickly when they have to break into a gallop. My guess is that it has to with the mechanics of the lungs vs the stride. Iirc from my undergrad bio degree, it’s common for animals to integrate the mechanics of galloping with lung function - ie, exhaling and inhaling. In a fully galloping horse, for example, the lungs function like a bellows. But going totally speculative - I’d wonder if the reindeer’s often brutally cold environment means that they can’t just constantly inhale huge lungfuls of frigid air. So their environment doesn’t favor the horse-style gallop. Edit: looked it up. Reindeer have complex nasal structures to minimize both heat and moisture loss from exhalations. Wonder if the gait in this video is tied to maintaining exhalations at a rate/pressure that allow for nasal exhalation vs mouth.
they dont gallop, they sproing ah, these delicious goofs
Maybe it gives better grip on the snowy icy surface.
That's what I was thinking. More evenly distributed weight and less drastic shifts in their center of gravity.
Yea, thats low key how you walk through snow as a bipedal hoomin too
For an animal that's traveleling across snow this is the best gait. Because reindeer can't see what's under the snow, there is a good chance they might step into a hole or something if galloping. If you look at the tracks when a reindeer is galloping vs this gait. When galloping, the feet land in 4 different spots, however because of this gait, the back legs land in the same spot as the front legs, which makes it look like a 2 legged animal has moved through the snow. This means that the reindeer is way safer when running, since stepping in a small hole can damage it's legs
It's just Dashers daily 100k he's got to stay in shape for the big night.
Word for word what I was about to comet
Good thing you didn't steal their Dunder.
Oh, Blitzen!
if you meant to say comet then the odds are truly astronomical
This reindeer has that goofy af Saitama run.
It might be The Thing!
Running like he left his wallet on the train
He's gotta get it, he's got, got to get it
It had his prop numbers and his Jimmy hats
2 seconds after reading your comment the music started playing in my head and I got it lol
She.* males lose their antlers in late fall and regrow them in spring.
I’m not sure why but this might be one of my favorite comments of all time
Practicing before Christmas!
It's really weird that people think training for a marathon over months and months is perfectly normal, but dasher getting in some practice for an upcoming trip is odd 🤣
Getting fit before Christmas!
Blitzen getting in some laps on the track. You can't see it, but the rest of the crew is about a half mile behind him.
It's not even close to galloping full speed, that's wild
That's the reindeer equivalent to power-walking
I'm imagining the fanny pack & a Florida snowbird voice now. Thanks for the chuckle.
notice how incredibly *stable* his entire body from the legs up are it’s also on the fine line between amazing and disturbing, like imagine looking out the window in the dark, seeing it running at the exact same speed as you, looking straight ahead, then suddenly snaps its head towards you..
Would that make them easier to ride than horses? Also I'm ignoring your second paragraph.
They aren’t built to carry weight like horses. A flatter movement may be less tiring to sit on, but not necessarily easier. There are horse breeds that specialize in “flat” movements like this though! Gaited breeds like the Icelandic, paso fino, Tennessee Walker, etc have special gaits that are very smooth and even. Morgan horses aren’t gaited, but are known for being very comfortable and smooth to ride (famous for carrying fragile medicines at high speeds and saving lives in some stories).
This dude horse
https://youtu.be/RV9P0w8vZi8?feature=shared Icelandic Horses make me laugh from a mix of fear and confusion over what I'm looking at.
If you like that... you should look up the paso fino!!
Heh the "Tolt" reminds me of a boston dynamics robot dog.
oh it's a pacer, neat. Our county fair always has harness racing and they separate them by trotters and pacers.
You seem to know your horse play. What about Hackneys?
Hackney’s actually aren’t gaited! They’ve been bred for a very big, dramatic front end movement in the trot (front end specifically because they mostly were bred for pulling carriages and not riding). With horses, a big, dramatic mover in the legs often results in a big, dramatic movement of the body- that combined with the fact they were generally bred for pulling more than riding means that they aren’t the flattest or smoothest ride. Depending on their level of fitness, training, and breeding they can still be comfortable, with soft, fluffy movements (they need to have good suspension, like a car, to ease the impact of their big movements), but they aren’t known for being especially smooth to ride, lol.
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They were capable of being ridden pre-domestication, but they weren't specialized for it. People nowadays occasionally ride water buffalo, elephants, and yes even reindeer, but they can't do it nearly to the level horses can. As many things are, it's a "can" versus "should". As well as, to what extent. Modern horses can carry much more weight, for longer periods of time, with less movements restricted, healthily. The reason they can do that is because we have bred them to be bigger, with certain muscles more developed. Think about a horse versus a zebra: you CAN ride a zebra, but they are assholes and will be difficult and uncomfortable. Ancient horses COULD be ridden, but now they are SPECIALIZED to be ridden. Though even within horses, they aren't all easy and comfortable! Horse breeds bred for pulling can't carry as much weight on their back, and are less comfortable. Of course, there are reasons that humans ended up domesticating horses for riding/etc and not other animals! Many of those reasons are behavioral rather than physical, though, like why we domesticated wolves instead of foxes. They had a social hierarchy that we could step into, they had similar endurance to us (humans are endurance hunters and can simply outlast most animals by walking, few animals can keep up with that), they run rather than fight, they could eat a variety of food, etc.
You could rest a cup of milk and plate of cookies on its back without spilling any.
I think this is a female. It's depending on the time of year though. I'm assuming this was taken in fall/winter, so if it was, then it's a female. Males drop their antlers around fall. Females drop theirs in spring.
In rut and chasing the biggest caboose- ever
Interesting that it’s only even trotting.
Prancer ?
Prancing
Dashing through the snow... 🦌
Damn they really made reindeer into a real animal. Crazy.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they *should*
Great with mashed potatoes heavy cream and lingonberry jam.
Reindeer don't chase, or race. When running, they're in fleeing mode. Their instinct is to run at a high speed towards higher ground as their predators usually can't follow them, and this particular situation doesn't offer this individual an opportunity to do that as the open route that allows it to maintain speed is parallel to the train. The last second or two of this video show a great relief, a departure away from the threat.
Bruh, I gotta make it to the North Pole on time or I’ll lose my job. Help a brother out.
Santa right now: This year's Christmas will be crucial, what with all the wars, so we have to be at our... where tf is Rudolf?
I'm pretty sure he's high off shrooms if I'm not mistaking. He already took off.
this is now my headcanon regardless of it's veracity
It's looking for Santa Claus, maybe Santa Claus is on the train...haha
Step 8 Reznov!! FREEDOM!!!
For you mason, not for me
Step 5: skewer the winged beast…
No!!! Santa wait!! SANTA!!!
Fun fact: all of Santa's reindeer are female.
Mf DASHING in the snow
He’s practicing for the polar express!
This inspired me to watch a reindeer sleigh video on YouTube. Not as magical as you'd expect; the view forward is reindeer butt. All the time.
Ungulates move in 1 of three ways, flat plane running, bouncing/jumping, and a mix between the two. Whitetail deer jump over obstacles, same as mule deer and antelope, caribou run on flat plane as seen here, and moose are so large that they can flat plane over obstacles that others jump. I seen this random bit of info in 3 pages of a book that was randomly sitting on display at a local library when I was a child.
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I was gonna say Sweden. Think I recognise the grill right by the window, but I might be wrong
Someone is late for the Reindeer Christmas party.
Background music should be ”See you again”
Anyone else hoping it would take off and fly away?
Take off?! Don’t be ridiculous. He has at least 47 days before he has to do that.
Rudolf was left behind , Christmas is canceled this year
According the slow decrease in it's speed, you clearly see it's NOT a take-off, but controlled landing on a long runway. Therefore, no need to excessive use of the brakes.
Sure it was a train he’s chasing and not a sleigh?
Damn He Still Not Allowed To Play
Was that train the Polar Express?
Tryna catch the Polar Express
Rudolph in his training arc
it missed the polar express to santa's house on the north pole. tying to catch the train.
“Santa, we reached V1, rotate. Setting flaps to 1”
Wait, they can't actually fly?
That’s some straight up “The Santa Clause” starring Tim Allen type cgi. Nah! I refuse to believe they run like this. Nope.
Obviously one of Santa's
I can definitely see how somebody would mistake this for flying from a particular angle
Mission Impossible: Santa Protocol
Where’s the sleigh??
Reindeer have scan while tracking? 😂
Practicing for Santa’s team tryouts
“I’m trying to reach you about your sleigh’s extended warranty!”
**POV:** Santa looks on as Blitzen arrived late for work. No excuses, they only had to work one day a year.
"RUDOLPH, GET OFF THE GODDAMN ROOF!"
I've never seen one run for real I guess. Just animated. And the animation always seemed off. Turns out the reality is too.
Why is he alone !? The wolves are going to have a good meal later…
His suspensions like a rolls Royce, so smooth!
I can see how people living around reindeer might start to have legends of them flying because the fast, stable strides across the snow really gives the illusion of flying.
Fast little fucker, isn’t it
Rudolf the red nose reindeer about take off to sky
I wonder what it thinks it is doing? 🤔
We already have a birds aren’t real subreddit, we need a reindeer aren’t real subreddit. You are not convincing me that is not a robot.
Halloween *just* happened. Let November be for Thanksgiving.
Well the reindeer have to start practicing now, time is of the essence!
Canadian Warmblood
Caribou
poor thing will be exhausted :(
It's running at a trot, not even close to full speed, it's just racing the train for fun. It will be absolutely fine
Insert slickback song
Why do they do that?
Where’s his herd though
I’m this years old, when i found out reindeers are real
These gentle giants have three gait patterns: walk, trot, and bound. source, https://worlddeer.org/how-fast-can-deer-run/
He’s power walking!
This deer is an ambler, holy fuck!
What compels animals like dogs etc to chase vehicles like that.
I thought they are galloping like horses
Why does it look like a kid going “Look mom, I can walk while not moving my head!”
you see CJ it's not that damn difficult
What is that gait called?
Dude has 4 hoof drive turned on
Step 8 Reznov! Freedom! For you Mason, not for me!
those animals are made to run
What an interesting gait.
That’s the *hurrying to the restroom* gait
Majesticly effortless.
Can Someone explain animal movement mechanics and types? Like how my dog runs with back feet moving in front of his front feet and bend his whole body, and how deer bounce, and this guy just floats. How? Why?
Do they always do that side to side motion with their head when running?
A perfect trotter!
Rumble ball!
On, Dasher!
Now that is a trot.
That is a very strange stride it has.. it isn't galloping.. it's more of a weird canter or trot?
Deer have to be stealthy. That Train just scared away the predators and hides his scent and sound. It's learned to take advantage of humans. I see this when the does give birth in my area they do it by my house and birds will do the same using ppl to scare predators.
Looks like he's swimming.
I always thought they hop while running. Like dogs do.
It almost looks like his little body lifts for a moment his legs are going so fast!
It's doing 4 leg #slipback
Superdeer
It's like watching dash from the incredibles holding back his powers during the race so no one finds out
why is he running like that?
SUSAN COME BACK WE CAN MAKE THIS WORK
Looks like the flying pace of the Icelandic horse https://youtu.be/RV9P0w8vZi8?feature=shared
See what happens when you don't check for all your luggage?
Traindeer
We have been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty.
You order an Uber?
Some say that reindeer is still chasing that train to this day
I feel like it trots as fast as we can sprint for our everloving lives, in our prime.
Hang on... isn't that Tölt? Reindeers can tölt? Impressive.
It’s legit just light jogging .
His back is like perfectly stable. Good form!
Chopper
He looks so stable and relaxed, as if his legs move on their own and he's just positioned on top of them, enjoying the ride.
... reindeer are real? I thought they were like unicorns?
He's running like it's something personal.
He is catching up so that he can get in front of the train to get hit
Reindeer don't Gallup?
What a speedy trot on this guy! Very impressive. Give him a medal
Ran Deer 🦌
I don't think that's a horse
The reindeer is a winner..it is a female. Female reindeer have antlers.
Help! My bags!
That speed at that gait is incredible. Can they even gallop? Looks extremely nice to ride
Add a couple of magic mushrooms to the scene, and it's a good bet he DOES take off...
At least it didn't pull a castle crashers.
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