"Tell me more please, Teddy" Tommy pleaded. "I like that we're going to see some of Rudolph's cousins!"
Luckily, Teddy has infinite patience, and as he started to give Tommy more information, the other bears gathered round him too.
"Male deer are called bucks and females are called does - do you remember the song in Mary Poppins that begins 'doe's a deer, a female deer'?" he began.
The other bears remembered this now. Mary Poppins was one of their favourite musicals but they hadn't really associated that bit of the song with actual deer. Now it all made sense!
"Does anyone know what baby deer are called?" Teddy asked them all.
"They're called fawns!" announced Lizzie. "Like the little baby deer in the Bambi film!"
"Well done, Lizzie!" said Teddy. "Let me tell you just a few more interesting facts about deer before we meet any," he continued. "Male deer grow antlers on top of their heads every year. The antlers fall off in Winter and then they grow another set.
