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Polar Animals

Polar animals are animals that live in the cold environments of the Earth's polar regions (the Arctic and Antarctic) and the surrounding areas. They have adapted to the harsh conditions of extreme low temperatures, long winter nights, and ice and snow. Typical polar animals include polar bears, penguins, seals, Arctic foxes, reindeer, walruses, and Antarctic krill. Polar animals usually have thick fur or fat layers to keep warm, and some animals can also migrate seasonally to adapt to clima

Vulpes

Vulpes

Foxs

Foxes (scientific name: Vulpes) are omnivorous animals widely distributed ar···

Oceanites oceanicus

Oceanites oceanicus

Oceanites oceanicus,Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Smoke black fork tail petrel (scientific name: Oceanites oceanicus) foreign ···

Garrodia nereis

Garrodia nereis

Garrodia nereis,Gray-backed Storm Petrel

Garrodia nereis (Gray-backed Storm Petrel) is a congregating bird, either in···

Oceanites oceanicus

Oceanites oceanicus

Oceanites oceanicus,Wilson's Storm Petrel

Oceanites oceanicus, Wilson' s Storm Petrel is a kind of petrel.Yellow-w···

Thalassoica antarctica

Thalassoica antarctica

Thalassoica antarctica,Antarctic Petrel

The Antarctic Petrel (Thalassoica antarctica, Antarctic Petrel) is a Marine ···

Puffinus elegans

Puffinus elegans

Puffinus elegans,Subantarctic Shearwater

The Subantarctic Shearwater (Puffinus elegans) is a bird of the genus Puffin···

Daption capense

Daption capense

Daption capense

Its scientific name is Daption capense, but its specific habits are unknown.···

Balaenoptera bonaerensis

Balaenoptera bonaerensis

Antarctic baleen whale, Southern minke whale

Cetacea LC

Antarctic minke whale (scientific name: Balaenoptera bonaerensis) is also kn···

Sterna paradisaea

Sterna paradisaea

Arctic Tern ,Sterna paradisaea

The Arctic tern is a seabird belonging to the tern genus. It is medium-sized···

Phocarctos hookeri

Phocarctos hookeri

Phocarctos hookeri

The scientific name of New Zealand sea lion is Phocarctos hookeri, also know···

Arctocephalus gazella

Arctocephalus gazella

Arctocephalus gazella,Kerguelen Fur seal,Island sea lions, sea wolves, Antarctic fur seals

The Antarctic fur seal (scientific name: Arctocephalus gazella) is called Ke···

Leptonychotes weddellii

Leptonychotes weddellii

Leptonychotes weddellii,monk seal, Weddell seal, Weddell seal, Weddell seal

Weddell seal (Latin name: Leptonychotes weddellii), also known as Weddell se···

Lobodon carcinophagus

Lobodon carcinophagus

Lobodon carcinophagus,Crabeater seal

Sawtooth seals are called Lobodon carcinophagus in scientific name and Crabe···

Hydrurga leptonyx

Hydrurga leptonyx

Hydrurga leptonyx,leopard seal,

Leopard seal (scientific name: Hydrurga leptonyx) is also known as leopard s···

Phoca vitulina

Phoca vitulina

Phoca vitulina ,Common seal

The scientific name of the harbor seal is Phoca vitulina (Linnaeus, 1758), a···

Phoca hispida

Phoca hispida

Phoca hispida,Ringed seal,Nordic seal, ice seal, ring seal

The scientific name of the ringed seal is Phoca hispida, and its foreign nam···

Pagophilus groenlandicus

Pagophilus groenlandicus

Pagophilus groenlandicus,Harp Seal、Greenland Seal,Greenland seal, ice seal, Lyra seal, saddle seal

Harp seal (scientific name: Pagophilus groenlandicus) is also known as Harp ···

Ommatophoca rossii

Ommatophoca rossii

Ommatophoca rossii,Ross seal, Ross seal

The big-eyed seal (scientific name: Ommatophoca rossii) is named because of ···

Vulpes lagopus

Vulpes lagopus

Vulpes lagopus,Arctic Fox,Blue fox, white fox

Arctic fox (scientific name: Vulpes lagopus) is called Arctic Fox in foreign···

Monodon monoceros

Monodon monoceros

Monodon monoceros,Narwhal、Unicorn Whale,Narwhal, Lance Whale

The scientific name of narwhal: Monodon monoceros, foreign names Narwhal, Un···

Arctic grayling

Arctic grayling

Thymallus arcticus

Arctic grayling (scientific name: Thymallus arcticus): is an animal of the f···

Balaenoptera acutorostrata

Balaenoptera acutorostrata

Balaenoptera acutorostrata,Minke Whale、Common Minke Whale,Minke whale, Sharp-billed whale

Cetacea LC

Minke Whale has two subspecies and is a small baleen whale of the genus Myst···

Emperor Penguin

Emperor Penguin

Aptenodytes forsteri

Emperor penguins mainly live in the sea. They hunt, swim and play in the wat···

Adélie penguin

Adélie penguin

Pygoscelis adeliae

The legs of the Adélie penguin are light pink and the soles of the feet are···

Pygoscelis antarcticus

Pygoscelis antarcticus

chinstrap penguin, Police officer penguin, Antarctic penguin, chinstrap penguin, whiskered penguin, chinstrap penguin

As penguins that look like police officers, they are also very courageous an···

Odobenus rosmarus

Odobenus rosmarus

Walrus, Seahorse

Walrus, as the name suggests, is the elephant in the sea. It has a huge body···

Phoca largha

Phoca largha

Harbor seal, seal, fur seal, fur seal, western Pacific harbor seal

Sometimes they look out of the water, sometimes they dive for food, and some···

Polar Bear

Polar Bear

Ursus maritimus,White bear, sea bear, ice bear

Polar bears are such good swimmers that they were once thought to be marine ···

Arctic wolf

Arctic wolf

Canis lupus arctos, white wolf, snow wolf

Among the animals living in the Arctic, polar bears and Arctic foxes are ver···

Beluga whale

Beluga whale

Delphinapterus leucas, sea canary

Cetacea LC

As the name suggests, it is a white whale. It is called the cutest whale in ···