Adaptations, Habitat, and Diet
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The Arctic Fox's coat changes color for it to blend in. In the summer it is a reddish-brown, and in the winter, it develops a layer of insulating fat and a thick coat of white fur. It is a omnivore, so it's diet is mostly composed of lemmings and voles, but it can feed on a lot of things: Arctic hares, owls, bird eggs, fish, it will also eat carrion, berries, and seaweed. Arctic Fox's habitat is spread out across the Arctic Tundra.
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The wolf is a carnivore, so it eats mostly the musk oxen and arctic hare. It also eats caribou, lemmings, seals, and birds. It's habitat is mostly in the arctic, except when the low density in prey makes the ones that can't stand it move to a new territory. The wolf has sharp teeth and claws to hunt.
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The polar bear's habitat is preferably the sea ice covering the waters, because they spend many months to a year at sea. It has hollow fur so that air gets trapped in it and that makes it buoyant to water. The polar bear is a carnivore, so it mostly eats ringed and bearded seals. It will also eat harp and hooded seals, carcasses of beluga whales, walruses, narwhals, and bowhead whales.
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The caribou's habitat is all over the Arctic tundra, because they migrate through it. It is a herbivore, so in the winter, it uses it's hooves to dig through the snow and find moss and lichens that were underneath the arctic surface. One of it's adaptations is that they have think fur and thick skin that enable them to go through freezing waters while migrating.
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The Musk Ox does the same thing as the caribou. It uses it's hooves to dig through the snow and eats the plants it finds in the winter. In the summer, it eats arctic flowers, grasses, and likes to feed near water. The Musk Ox's habitat is spread out in the arctic tundra. It 's adaptation is that it's hooves are capable of breaking ice so it can drink.