This is true even if they have never seen one in real life, thanks to their association with Santa Claus. People call reindeer by very similar names in several different languages. And their name ...

but he didn’t always wear a red coat and have a reindeer posse. The clerk's office in North Pole, Alaska, announced Thursday that a man whose legal name is Santa Claus launched a write-in ...

and no one knows what type of reindeer Claus (because we're all professional journalists here, we refer to people by their last name on second mention, so Santa Claus is just Claus now ...