Tundra Habitat Animals And Plants
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Tundra habitat animals and plants. The list of tundra animals is considerably long and has to its credit prominent species like polar bears, arctic foxes, grizzly bears, harlequin ducks, musk oxen, caribous, and snowy owls. Many animals found on the tundra are migratory species, moving in to eat the plants in the summer, but leaving again before the hard winter. Polar bears, snowy owls, caribou, gray wolves, arctic foxes, and arctic hare.
Caribou moss (reindeer moss) is seen growing abundantly in the alpine tundra. World wildlife federation is preserving areas in the tundra, such as the bering sea ecoregion of chukotska, covering 284,000 square miles with more than 900 species of plants and 400 species of moss and lichen. The habitat has a long and brutal winter and the barren landscape provides many challenges.
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Get acquainted with some of the animals that make their home in the tundra. The tundra covers about one fifth of the land on earth. Like plants, even these animals have adapted themselves to survive the extreme weather.
Few plants can grow with this habitat's little sunlight and rain. It is the coldest biome. Lichen also is found in the tundra.
But some animals like the caribou or musk oxen can eat the lichens and other plants. The word tundra comes from the finnish word tunturi meaning treeless plain. Animals that live on the tundra must be able to adapt to very cold temperatures.