Polar Bear

Polar Bear

The Polar bear is the largest meat-eating animal that lives on land. It can be found in all te polar regions of the northern hemisphere, including Russia, Norway, Greenland, Canada and Alaska. The polar bear is the worlds largest land predator. Its thick, waterproof fur coat and layer of blubber keeps it warm and enables it to swim for hours in freezing Artic seas. So effective is the polar bears insulation, in fact, that adult males quickly overheat when running. Polar bears spend most of the year floating on massive ice floes, covering daily distances of up to 40 km in a costant quest for food. In a lifetime, they may cover an area equal to 260,000sq km. [Read more]

Leopard

Leopard

The Leopard is found over most of sub-Saharan Africa, parts of the Middle East, Afghanistan, India and Sri Lanka and from northern China through southeast Asia, although its distribution is increasingly patchy. One of the most impressive of the big cats, the leopard’s strenght and beauty have long made it the stuff of legend. Aided by its magnificent, mottled camouflage and powerful, compact build, it can silently attack and kill prey more than twice its own weight. Its habitat and diet are so varied that it thrives in areas where larger competitors, such as lions and tigers, often fail. Uniquely, the leopard can even live without water for long periods, meeting all its needs from prey alone. [Read more]

Giraffe

Giraffe

The giraffe in habits the savannahs of Africa, where it roams freely over arid shrub lands, among tall trees and on the open plains. Tallest of all living animals, the giraffe bold colour patterning and unusual body proportions make it unmistakable from any distance. Living in the savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, this sometimes graceful, sometimes ungainly animal can run at up to 56 km/h, but may still not be able to escape its main predator, the ferocious lion. [Read more]

Arctic Fox

Arctic Fox

Found in the Thundra Regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia and Russia, the Arctic fox is most common near the coast. Some populations inhabit isolated Arctic islands. The luxurious, thick, white coat of the Arctic fox [Read more]

Tiger

Tiger (Panthera tigris)

Tigers used to occur across Asia as far west as Turkey, and isolated populations developed into eight different subspecies. Within their huge range tigers have adapted to conditions ranging from bleak mountain forests to mangrove swamps and jungle. Since the beginning of the 20th century numbers have sharply declined, usually through conflict with humans. Tigers are large and fierce animals. They need to kill to eat and will often kill domestic animals and even people. Their own habitat has been reduced by farming and logging to the point where natural prey is difficult to obtain in sufficient quantity. Humans [Read more]

Gray Wolf

Canis lupus spp.

Although still common in Alaska and some other areas, the gray wolf is now extinct or critically endangered in many parts of its former range. The gray wolf is the largest member of the dog family. At one time it had the widest distribution of almost any land mammal, being found nearly everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Throughout this range wolves have inspired considerable fear over the centuries, and this has been reinforced by spine-chilling stories; they are the subject of much folklore. As people and their domestic animals have spread and increased in number, conflict with wolves has [Read more]

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