Caribou Arctic Fox Snowy Owl Polar Bear · Polar Bear They hunt and eat seals and other sea life...
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Caribou
Caribou will scrape the snow away and eat lichens, dried
sedges and small shrubs. In the summer they the will eat leaves of willows, sedges, flowering
tundra plants, and mushrooms.
Arctic Fox
A typical diet of this fox consists of birds, eggs, small mammals and fish. It will also eat berries, seaweed, insects and larvae, when other prey is scarce
Snowy Owl
The snowy owls feed on arctic fox, rabbits, lemmings, voles,
and various seabirds.
Polar Bear
They hunt and eat seals and
other sea life
Musk Ox
The musk ox eat lots of food like grass, willows, arctic flowers, mosses, lichens, aspens, birch shoots, berry bushes, sedges, leaves, twigs and even barks if
they can find some.
Harlequin Duck
A harlequin ducks diet consists of mussels, shellfish, aquatic insects, crustaceans and some
small fish.
Grizzly Bear
Scientists discovered that 75% of the bear population lives off plants alone. The grizzly will also eat insects, small rodents
and honey.
Ermine
Ermine eat mice, voles, lemmings, pikas, mice,
snowshoe hares, birds, insects, and fish carcasses.
Puffin
Adult puffins mostly eat small fish, such as sand eels, herring,
hake and capelin. During winter puffins may also eat
crustaceans, but their preferred food is fish.
Wolverine
Wolverines easily dispatch smaller prey, such as rabbits and rodents, but may even
attack animals many times their size, such as caribou, if the prey appears to be weak or injured.
Weddell Seal
Cod and silverfish are favorites, though these seals also eat small crustaceans, octopuses, and other marine creatures.
Arctic Tern
In most cases, it eats small fish or marine crustaceans. Fish species comprise the most
important part of the diet, such as herring and cod. Among the marine crustaceans eaten are amphipods, crabs and krill.
Emperor Penguin
The primary food source is generally fish. Glacial and
hooked squids and Antarctic krill are also regularly featured
in their diet.
Collared Lemming
In summer their main foods are tender shoots of grasses and shrubs. During the winter they eat bark and twigs off willow
and dwarf birch.
Arctic Hare
In the winter the arctic hare feeds on bare twigs and
vegetables just under the snow. It will also eat spruce twigs,
bark, needles, and buds of hard wood. In the summer they feed
on grass, bugs, twigs, and leaves.
Arctic Wolf
Wolves mainly eat Arctic hare, musk ox, Arctic fox, caribou, and lemmings.