8/30/2023 0 Comments Rudolph lyricsMay, after securing the rights to his creation in the mid-1940s (per NPR) returned to Rudolph's literary roots, publishing a not widely known sequel in 1954 called "Rudolph Shines Again." The plot, according to Publishers Weekly (via Barnes and Noble), finds little changed among the reindeer community at the North Pole. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (fictionally) saved Christmas and subsequently became a (real) media touchstone, but before he was the subject of a song, TV special, or movie, he was a literary character, appearing in a 1939 giveaway storybook for Montgomery Ward. According to the researchers, Rudolph's nose blood pathways are merely extra active and extra thick, and they also help regulate the temperature of his brain and keep his nose from freezing (such as during high altitude flying sleigh rides). Their findings: Ultra-thin capillaries in the reindeer noses were indeed full of red blood-cell rich capillaries, with a vascular density 25 percent higher than that of humans. Scientists set up a study in Tromso, Norway (not far from the real North Pole) and in the Netherlands and observed the noses of six human volunteers and two adult reindeer. The researchers' thesis: that Rudolph's bright red nose is such because of a denser and more concentrated than usual framework of blood vessels. In 2012, according to the National Library of Medicine, "The British Medical Journal" published a study that sought to "characterize the functional morphology of the nasal microcirculation in humans in comparison with reindeer," or rather to determine the physiology of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's red nose.
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