Arctic Adventure
This animal is active during the day, stays with one mate for life, and preys on lemmings.
What is the snowy owl?
This animal runs fast, is an opportunistic eater, and has large ears.
What is the swift fox?
Bowhead whales can weigh up to this enormous amount.
What is 200,000 pounds?
This animal is called an “ecosystem engineer” because its movement through forests helps spread seeds and shape its environment.
What is the Asian elephant?
Why are female elephants especially important to their herds?
Older females provide leadership, knowledge of resources, and protection for the family group.
Why is sea ice important for walruses?
They use it for resting, breeding, and raising young.
This large grassland mammal was once nearly driven to extinction.
What is a plains bison?
This animal is born in freshwater, travels to the ocean to grow, and returns to rivers to reproduce.
What is Pacific salmon?
Every two years, a female tiger will give birth to this number of cubs.
What is two to four cubs?
This animal is called a reindeer when domesticated.
What is a caribou?
The rounded forehead of a beluga whale is called this structure, which helps focus sounds for echolocation.
What is the melon?
This Great Plains animal may look like a deer but is actually more closely related to this animal group.
What are giraffes?
How do humpback whales help fight climate change?
Their nutrient-rich waste supports phytoplankton, which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Why does a pangolin’s lack of teeth not prevent it from eating successfully?
It uses its sticky tongue to capture ants and termites and swallows them whole.
This animal is known as the “ghost of the mountains” and has a long tail to maintain its balance.
What is the snow leopard?
A narwhal’s tusk is actually this type of body part.
What is a tooth?
This disease threatens black-footed ferrets by killing their main prey.
What is sylvatic plague?
A female walrus does this to protect her young from predators.
What is holding their calves to their chests with their flippers before diving into the water?
Adult giant pandas can weigh between this range.
What is 200–300 pounds?
A polar bear is protected from the snow and bright sun with this feature.
What is a third eyelid?
After hearing prey beneath the snow, the Arctic fox uses this hunting technique.
It jumps into the air and dives headfirst into the snow.
During mating season, greater-sage grouse males do this to attract females.
They perform a dance. To attract females, they puff out their white chest repeatedly, make popping sounds, and show off their tail feathers.
This determines whether green sea turtle hatchlings develop as males or females.
What is sand temperature?
Why do Amazon river dolphins rely more on echolocation than eyesight?
Because they live in murky river water where visibility is poor.
Why is a monarch butterfly’s migration considered unusual compared to many other animals?
The full migration is completed by multiple generations, with no single butterfly making the entire round trip.