🇬🇱 Animals of Greenland

The Arctic fox is a small fox of the tundra with the best insulating fur of any mammal.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.

The bowhead whale is a heavy Arctic baleen whale that breaks sea ice with its huge arched head.

The fin whale is the second longest animal alive and one of the fastest of the great whales.

The great auk was a large flightless seabird of the North Atlantic that swam with its wings and caught fish under water.

The gyrfalcon is the biggest of all falcons, and it hunts across the Arctic tundra.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

The muskox is a shaggy Arctic grazer, a giant relative of sheep and goats that outlived the Ice Age in Canada and Greenland.

The narwhal is an Arctic toothed whale, and the male carries a spiral tusk up to 3 metres long.

The polar bear is the largest bear and the largest land carnivore.

The reindeer, called the caribou in North America, is the deer of the Arctic tundra and the northern forests.

The rock ptarmigan is a grouse of high mountains and Arctic tundra that changes colour with the seasons.

The snowy owl breeds on the open Arctic tundra and hunts by day under the midnight sun.

The sperm whale is the biggest of the toothed whales and the largest predator with teeth.

The walrus is a huge tusked seal of the Arctic seas that feeds on clams from the seabed and rests in crowds on the ice.