The Arctic wolf, also known as the white wolf, polar wolf, and the Arctic grey wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the High Arctic tundra of Canada's Queen Elizabeth Islands, from Melville Is
Arctic Wolf in Aulavik National Park 04
Queen Elizabeth Islands region (QEI) divided into five major areas by apparent importance to arctic-island wolves.
Arctic wolf feeding on muskox carcass in Ellesmere Island
The muskox is a hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae. Native to the Arctic, it is noted for its thick coat and for the strong odor emitted by males during the seasonal rut, from which its name derives.
Arctic wolf
…place in the wintertime in complete darkness, when the temperature was as low as −53 °C (−63 °F). The researchers found that wolves prey mainly on the muskoxen. There is no available information of the wolves' movements where the muskoxen were. In the wild, Arctic wolves primarily prey on muskoxen and Arctic…
Muskox male Dovrefjell 4
Euceratherium skeleton (missing its ribs)
Fossil muskox skull from prehistoric Siberia
Muskox at Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Alaska