What animals are in the Arctic?

Arctic animals are: polar bear, grizzly bear, arctic fox, arctic wolf, arctic hare, beluga whale, horn whale, seal, walruse, arctic sloth, arctic owl, horn-billed puffin, arctic grouse, arctic falcon, arctic bald eagle, grayling, gray trout, herring, smelt, cod, etc.

The animals living in the Arctic mainly include the inhabitants of the Arctic tundra zone and the marine animals in the Arctic Ocean. Among them are represented by whales and polar bears. Due to the rise in global temperatures, the Arctic ice floes are gradually beginning to melt, and the former home of polar bears has been damaged to a certain extent, and it is likely to become extinct in the near future, requiring human protection.

The Arctic tundra is a vast permafrost swamp zone between the coast of the Arctic Ocean and the taiga, with a total area of 13 million square kilometers. Its most distinctive feature is that it has a very thick layer of permafrost, up to 488 meters thick, and can be more than 600 meters thick. Therefore, the Arctic tundra can also be referred to as the tundra along with the highland tundra in other parts of the world.

The tundra climate is a desert climate, with an annual precipitation of only 200 mm, which is similar to that of arid areas such as the Loess Plateau in China. But if you fly over the tundra in the summer, you'll be surprised to find that the tundra is so much more watery than on land that it is covered with lakes and swamps. Water birds frolic on the water surface, and flowers bloom on the land, just like a landscape of water towns and Zeguo.

This is mainly due to the low temperature and slow evaporation of water. A few centimeters below the surface of the earth is permafrost, which prevents normal leakage and drainage. By winter, the entire tundra is covered in snow and ice, and it is desolate.

Plants in the southern part of the tundra grow for about 90 days per year, in the north for only 20 days, and further north, lichens on the islands in the hinterland of the Arctic Ocean grow only for 1 or 2 days a year, or not at all.

LemmingsIt is a very common and cute small mammal, living in the Arctic all year round, with an oval body, short legs, small ears and soft hair. With the exception of the tail, the whole body is 10 18 cm long.

2. Beluga, an animal of the genus Beluga in the family Horned Cetaceanaceae. The forehead is prominently raised outwards and rounded, the beak is short, and the lip line is broad. The body color is very light and distinctively white.

The only noticeable difference between beluga whales and other cetaceans: when it has a yellowish hue in the summer, it can be molted.

3. Arctic wolfAlso known as the white wolf, it is a subspecies of gray wolf under the canine family, distributed in northern Eurasia, northern Canada, and northern Greenland. It is a medium-sized wolf in the gray wolf subspecies.

4. Arctic fox, body length 50-60 cm, tail length 20-25 cm, weight kg. The face is narrow, the mouth is pointed, the ears are round, the tail hair is fluffy, and the tip is white. In winter, the whole body hair is white, only the tip of the nose is black; In summer, the body hair is grayish-black, and the ventral surface is lighter in color.

It has very dense villi and few needle hairs, and can live on ice sheets at minus 50. The plantar hair is particularly thick.

5. Polar bears, is an animal of the genus Ursidae in the family Bearidae, the largest land carnivore in the world, also known as the white bear. = Lives in ice-covered waters of the Arctic Circle. Winter caves can reach depths in permafrost.

The preferred habitat is the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean. Ice edges and pressure ridges, where fractures and refreezes occur, provide the best hunting grounds. Generally acts alone, with the exception of mating and lactation.

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The animals of the Arctic are polar bears, grizzly bears, arctic foxes, arctic wolves, arctic rabbits, etc.

1. Polar bear:

Polar bears are excellent swimmers and are the most carnivorous species, eating all meat. The main prey is seals, and even larger species such as walruses and beluga whales. It also preys on seabirds, fish, small mammals, and sometimes carrion.

In the summer, they will occasionally eat berries or plant rhizomes. In late spring and summer, they will also go to the seaside to collect seaweed to replenish the minerals and vitamins needed by the body.

2. Grizzly Bear:

Males have a body length of 170 280 cm and a weight of 300 500 kg; Only half of the females. The body is muscular, with bulging shoulders and back. The coat is coarse, up to 10 cm in winter; It comes in a variety of colors, such as gold, brown, black, and brownish-black.

Some individuals have a light color at the tip of their hair, even almost silvery-white, and they look like they are covered with a layer of silver-gray from a distance, so they are also called "grizzly bears". It has a wide range of habitats and generally lives alone. There are only 15.2 million animals in the world, but the population has been declining, and it is a national second-class protected animal in our country.

3. Arctic Fox:

Although the living environment of the arctic fox is very harsh, and they face many threats, the intelligent arctic fox improves their survival chances in this way. Among them, the reproductive ability of arctic foxes is indeed one of the "magic weapons" to ensure the number of their populations, but the cooperation of "parents" is particularly important to improve the survival rate of cubs.

4. Arctic wolf:

The maximum length of the Arctic wolf is 189cm, and it can be seen from this data that the Arctic wolf is relatively large, and the teeth are also very sharp, which is conducive to the Arctic wolf hunting prey, and it is the most active thing for the Arctic wolf in May and June, so there are many small animals living in the Arctic that are very afraid of the Arctic wolf.

5. Arctic Hare:

The Arctic rabbit is even larger, between 55 cm and 71 cm, weighs about 5 kg, about the same size as a fox, its limbs are very flexible, its ears are particularly short due to its life in the cold land, it is close to the head, it can save body temperature to the greatest extent, its personality is more lively, and its sense of smell and hearing is extremely sensitive, which is also exercised for a long time, after all, it lives in the cold Arctic, and in the face of the attack of natural enemies, it exercises its natural acuity.