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Caribou Snowy Polar

A typical diet of this fox consists

of , , small Caribou will scrape the They hunt and eat seals and and . It will also eat , away and eat , dried The snowy feed on arctic other sea life seaweed, and larvae, fox, , , , sedges and small shrubs. In the summer they the will eat when other prey is scarce and various . of , sedges, flowering plants, and mushrooms. Musk Ox Ermine

The musk ox eat lots of food like Scientists discovered that 75% Ermine eat mice, voles, grass, willows, arctic flowers, of the bear population lives off lemmings, , mice, , lichens, aspens, birch plants alone. The grizzly will A harlequin ducks diet consists snowshoe , birds, insects, shoots, bushes, sedges, also eat insects, small rodents of mussels, shellfish, aquatic and fish carcasses. leaves, twigs and even barks if and honey. insects, and some they can find some. small fish. Puffin Arctic

Cod and silverfish are favorites, In most cases, it eats small fish though these seals also eat small Adult puffins mostly eat small easily dispatch or marine crustaceans. Fish crustaceans, octopuses, and fish, such as sand eels, , smaller prey, such as rabbits comprise the most other marine creatures. hake and . During and rodents, but may even important part of the diet, such puffins may also eat attack many times their as herring and . Among the crustaceans, but their preferred size, such as caribou, if the prey marine crustaceans eaten are

food is fish. appears to be weak or injured. amphipods, and . Emperor Collared Arctic Arctic Penguin

In the winter the feeds on bare twigs and mainly eat Arctic In summer their main foods are vegetables just under the snow. hare, musk ox, , The primary food source is tender shoots of grasses and It will also eat spruce twigs, caribou, and lemmings. generally fish. Glacial and shrubs. During the winter they bark, needles, and buds of hard hooked squids and eat bark and twigs off wood. In the summer they feed krill are also regularly featured and dwarf birch. on grass, bugs, twigs, and in their diet. leaves.