Santa’s reindeer may only work 1 day per year, but they work really, really hard for that period of time. SPANA, a company that provides free veterinary treatment to working animals in developing countries around the world, crunched some numbers and said the magical reindeer travel over a distance of 41 million miles to deliver more than one million tons of presents on Christmas Eve.
The group of animals will work for 31 hours straight (taking into account time zone changes) to carry gifts to the 735 million children celebrating Christmas around the world. The calculations show it would take more than 6.76 million non-magical reindeer to pull this huge amount of presents, the sleigh, and the jolly Santa Claus himself.
