8-year-old Jessica Riggs is raised by her older brother, Steve, and widowed father, John. Their apple farm has fallen on hard times. John is temporarily being helped by his sister-in-law, Sarah. While walking home after a school Christmas pageant, Jessica witnesses a plastic reindeer fall from a Christmas decoration being hung above the main Santa has finished his epic journey around the world, having delivered almost eight million gifts. He stopped off at every home to drop 7,883,693,263 presents over the course of Christmas Eve. A Comet. 6. Cupid. 7. Dunder. 8. Blixem. Of course, other versions of the names have also been published over the years, including Donner and Blitzen. And Rudolph came later, popularized by the song and film. Rudolph. In no commonly recognized version of the story does Santa Claus have 12 reindeer pulling his sleigh. The names we use for the reindeer come from poetry and songs that have become part of the "Christmas canon." How Many Reindeer Does Santa Have So, how many reindeer does Santa have? The report found that reindeer and caribou herds have declined by 56 percent in the past two decades—that's a decrease of 2.6 million reindeer from a population of 4.7 million to a population of 2.1 million. Five herds in Alaska and Canada were particularly at risk: their populations have declined by more than 90 percent and showed no signs xFdv.

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