Rudolph is of course known as the red-nosed reindeer, and scientists say they may know why that’s the case.
Physiologist Dan Milstein with the University of Amsterdam and a group of colleagues examined the noses of several living reindeer.
“There was a much richer amount of blood vessels present inside Rudolph’s or reindeer’s nose in comparison to humans,” Milstein says.
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