The Arctic Fox is a small animal (ca 50 cm) but it's thick coat enables it to survive the year round in the bitter cold of the Arctic. This thick fur is also a camouflage and changes into a thinner brown fur during the summer. The arctic fox lives in North America, Scandinavia, Asia, Iceland and on the coasts of Greenland. Sometimes the Arctic fox will travel up to a hundred miles in search of new territory. The Arctic fox lives in dens that are bedded on a hillside. It eats small mammals but also birds, birds eggs, and the remains of killed animals. The Arctic Fox sometimes follows a Polar Bear because if it kills a seal, the fox is able to feed on it after the bear has eaten it's fill. The Arctic Fox breeds in May and ususally has five or six pups. Using its muzzle an Arctic fox digs a hole for its pup. The baby foxes are kept warm by the mother fox who never leaves them for a moment. Pups leaves their parents when winter comes. The Arctic Fox is hunted because of it's meat but mainly because of it's warm coat.

The Beluga Whales spend all their lives in arctic waters. They are dark blue-gray in color at birth but at the age of six they have turned completely white. Adult males are from 3.4 - 4.6 m long and weigh 450-900 kg. Adult females are smaller, seldom exceeding 3.7 m in length. The size to which Belugas grow varies in different parts of the range. The Beluga Whales are very social creatures and can be very loud. They send out sounds that bounce off things and let's them know how far away something is, which helps them to find prey. They work together in hunting. Belugas use a wide variety of facial expressions and also have good eye sight. The Belugas are hunted for their blubber ("muktuk," which consists of skin and the outer layer of blubber) and their meat.

Caribou

Dall Sheep

The Bald eagle 

Polar Bear

Lemmings are rodents and they look like guinea pigs but lemmings only grow up to 5 inches. Lemmings have large teeth that are used for gnawing. They have three colors: brown, white, and brown and white and they live in the Arctic. The Arctic lemmings live underground and feed on sedges and grasses. They dig their nest about three or four feet under the snow and breed during the winter. Each mother lemming has a several litters and only a week after they are born, the babies start making babies themselves. The lemming's most dangerous enemies are the Arctic fox and the snow owl.

The most striking Puffin feature is the large colourful bill. In summer they have a black back and neck with white on the sides of the head and on their breast. The white breast is so distinctive that in one Eskimo language puffins are called katukh-puk, meaning "big white breast." Adults are about 36 cm long and weigh about 600 gm. Puffin bills are larger and more colorful in the summer nesting season than in winter but they shed the bill’s outer layers in late summer. In May, puffins arrive at the nesting grounds and lay only a single, whitish-colored egg. Puffins are built for swimming underwater rather than for flying. They swim underwater using their wings to propel them and their webbed feet only for maneuvering. Puffins feed in flocks, with fish and zooplankton the mainstay of their diet. Historically, puffins were used for food and clothing by Alaskan Natives. One method of catching puffins was by using a net on the end of a long pole. The hunter waited for a puffin to fly in towards its nesting burrow, then suddenly placed the net in the puffin’s flight-path. The puffin, unable to quickly change its direction of flight, could not avoid the net. Aleut Natives made parkas of puffin skins, which are very tough, worn feather side in.

Snowy Owl female's are larger than males but both males and females look like they are bundled up in white snowsuits. The eyes of the snowy owls are in the front of their face rather than on the sides like some animals. Owl's eyes can see a mouse that is two football fields away. They are tubes and not balls so they cannot turn their eyeballs. Instead of turning their eyes their heads can turn almost totally around. Snowy owls breed in the barren Northern tundra. The owls build their nests on small hills or mounds. The male hunts for food while the female incubates the eggs. She lays seven to ten eggs. The most serious threat to the snowy owl is man. In the northern regions of Canada and in Scotland, the snowy owl is protected by law.

Walrus

Arctic hare