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FILE - In this March. 2, 2012, file photo, stars Danny DeVito, left, and Zac Efron read &quot;The Lorax&quot; by Dr. Seuss to school children during the annual Read Across America Day at The New York Public Library in New York. Researchers at Dartmouth College, the alma mater of author and illustrator Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, said on Monday, July 23, 2018, that the furry orange protagonist of &quot;The Lorax&quot; and the Truffula trees may have been based on the patas monkey species and the whistling thorn acacia tree, both found in Kenya. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

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In this Nov. 23, 2010 photo, a reindeer grazes on the living roof of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. In a scholarly paper published Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, anthropology professor Nathaniel Dominy of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., explores how the unique properties of reindeer eyes, including reflective tissue that changes color according to the season and the ability to see ultraviolet light, might explain the advantage of Rudolph's glowing red nose. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Rudolph’s shiny red nose tied to his blue eyes

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