Reindeer are well suited to their cold climate, with heavy fur coats. Their sharp hooves are used when snow is on the ground to dig down to the grass. Many people who live in these frigid areas, like the Lapps, keep huge herds of reindeer, which serve them much the same way as the buffalo served the American Indians (see North America).
Mother deer and fawn.
How big is a Shetland foal?
 About eighteen inches tall.
There are many different types of deer. Deer live in virtually every habitat from the very cold to the very hot. The common roe deer pictured is well known in North America, too. When a fawn is born, it is speckled with white dots, which makes it very difficult for a predator to see it.
More amazingly, however, is that the fawn has no odor to it. Many predators hunt by smell, so they would walk right by a quiet fawn without even noticing it. When the fawn becomes an adult, it can outrun and outjump just about any predator. The result is that deer are not endangered.
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