<intro name="Polar Bears" pic="">Polar bears are also known as white bears, northern bears and sea bears, and live along shores and on sea ice in the Arctic. Aggressive and dangerous creatures, they are the worldΓÇÖs largest living carnivores, weighing anything between 800 and 1,800 lbs!</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>Male polar bears can grow to ten feet in height ΓÇô the size of an average one-storey building! The largest on record stood 11ft 11in and weighed 1,960lbs.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>Polar bears have been known to swim 100 miles at a stretch.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>Polar bear numbers have been depleted by both hunting and habitat encroachment. </fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 4<br/><br/>Polar bearsΓÇÖ fur and skin allows them to absorb sunlight for warmth, while their blubber insulates them in cold water.</fact>
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<intro name="Mooses" pic="">Abundant in Canada, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains, moose are known as elk in Europe, where they are found in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. They are the largest member of the deer family, and are notable for their huge antlers and very long but thin, spindly legs.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>The moose is a strong swimmer and able to sustain a speed of 6 miles an hour. </fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>Only the male moose has antlers, but these can measure more than six feet from tip to tip.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>Moose can dive underwater as far down as 20 feet.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 4<br/><br/>A moose can run 35 miles in an hour!</fact>
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<intro name="Beluga Whales" pic="">Beluga whales are also called white whales but are born grey, getting lighter as they mature until they are totally white by the age of six. Their habit of chattering and singing to each other underwater has led them to be nicknamed ΓÇ£the canaries of the seaΓÇ¥.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>Beluga whales have a large rounded structure on the top of their heads called a melon. This focuses sound waves for echolocation and sound production.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>Beluga whales have very short snouts. Instead of a dorsal fin, they have a low dorsal ridge.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>Female beluga whales give birth every two or three years. The gestation period is 14 months, and calves weigh over 100 lbs at birth!</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 4<br/><br/>Beluga whales usually dive to a depth of 20 metres to hunt for food, but can dive as deep as 650 metres if required. They eat fish, octopuses, squid, crustaceans and worms.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 5<br/><br/>Killer whales and polar bears prey on beluga whales. Humans hunted them for years for oil and food, and now they are a protected species.</fact>
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<intro name="Penguins" pic="">When winter arrives in the Antarctic, every single creature that lives in these frozen wastes heads for warmer climes ΓÇô except one. Penguins, the aquatic flightless birds, stick it out in the sub-zero temperatures, and even spend the winter attempting to breed!</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>The Emperor penguin can swim in bursts of up to 36 kph.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>Emperor penguins normally forage for food at a depth of 150 ΓÇô 200 metres, but the deepest dive recorded was 565 metres!</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>Penguins have a special gland that filters salt from seawater</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 4<br/><br/>Penguins have a white underside and a dark belly for camouflage. A predator like a leopard seal, looking from below, has difficulty picking out a penguin from the reflective water surface, while their dark plumage camouflages them from above.</fact>
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<intro name="Arctic Foxes" pic="">The worldΓÇÖs northern-most fox, the Arctic fox is well adapted for life in the Arctic. As winter approaches, its grey-brown coat turns completely white, camouflaging it against the snow and rendering it virtually invisible to its prey.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>Some Arctic foxes have a steel blue winter coat. </fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>Arctic foxes will sometimes follow polar bears during the winter, and feed on the leftovers of their meals.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>Arctic fox burrows may cover 500 square feet, have 100 entrances and be connected by tunnels dug beneath the snow.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 4<br/><br/>A female Arctic fox may have as many as 25 pups in a single litter.</fact>
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<intro name="Snowy Owls" pic="">Snowy owls are all-white birds of prey that are found in the Arctic tundra. Snowy owls have incredible vision both in the day and at night and are deadly killing machines, swooping silently from high in the sky to capture and feed on their prey.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>Snowy owls can endure temperatures as low as ΓÇô40 Fahrenheit.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>Female adult snowy owls weigh as much as five pounds and have a wingspan of more than five feet. Adult males are smaller.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>Mature male snowy owls have pure white feathers, while females and children are white with grey-brown bands.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 4<br/><br/>Snowy owls can fly silently because their front wing feathers fit together in a way that breaks up the air and reduces the sound of the flapping of the wings.</fact>
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<intro name="Arctic Wolves" pic="">Arctic wolves are also called polar wolves or white wolves, and live in the Canadian Arctic and the northern parts of Greenland. They hunt in packs and will roam for hundreds of miles in pursuit of caribou, musk oxen or other prey.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>In deep snow, Arctic wolves travel single file, so that only one member of the pack has to break his way through the snow drifts.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>Arctic wolves are smaller than grey wolves. They grow up to three feet in length, including the tail, and shoulder height varies from 25 to 31 inches. They often weigh over 100 lbs.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>Arctic wolves live an average of seven years in the wild, but this can extend to as long as 17 years in captivity.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 4<br/><br/>Because the ArcticΓÇÖs permafrost is too hard to dig dens, Arctic wolves will shelter in rock outcroppings, caves or shallow depressions.</fact>
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<intro name="Walruses" pic="">Walruses are giant, tusked semi-aquatic mammals that inhabit the Arctic from Canada to Greenland. They live on ice floes and can weigh up to 1,800kg yet are surprisingly agile in the water, where they can swim at top speeds of around 30 kph.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>Walruses eat animals that live at the bottom of the ocean, including mussels, snails, crabs, and shellfish, as well as fish, seals and even young whales! They eat up to 176 lbs of food a day.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>Walruses can dive 300 feet and stay underwater for 12 minutes.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>The layer of fat, or blubber, that protects walruses from the cold can be as thick as six inches.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 4<br/><br/>Walruses can sleep while floating in water!</fact>
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<intro name="Seals" pic="">Seals can belong to the biological families of Odobenidae (walruses), Otariidae (sea lions, eared seals and fur seals) or Phocidae (true seals). The Otariidae family feed and travel in the water but breed and rest on land, and are less adapted to aquatic life than the true seals.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>Male southern elephant seals can reach nearly 15 feet in length.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>Harbour seals have a developed sense of smell. A mother can easily identify her young by smell on a crowded seal-breeding beach.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>One obvious difference between sea lions and seals is that sea lions have ear flaps while seals only have tiny openings.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 4<br/><br/>Weddell seals in the Antarctic can dive as deep as 1,900 feet and hold their breath for an hour.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 5<br/><br/>Leopard seals are the only seals that include other warm-blooded animals as a substantial portion of their dietΓÇô including penguins and the pups of other seal species.</fact>
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<intro name="Reindeers" pic="">Reindeer are found throughout Scandinavia, Russia, North America, Iceland and Greenland, where they are still a source of food, clothing, shelter and tools to the native Inuit people. They are raised for the meat, milk, hides and antlers and, in places like Siberia, for use in transportation.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>Reindeer are the only deer species in which both males and females have antlers.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>In North America, reindeer are called caribou.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>Reindeer meat is popular in Scandinavia, and reindeer antlers are ground into a powder and sold as a nutritional supplements in Asian markets.</fact>
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<intro name="Arctic Hares" pic="">Arctic hares live in both mountainous and lowland areas of Canada, Greenland and some Arctic islands. They are bright white in colour with black tips to their ears, but in the summer, some arctic hares turn a blue-gray colour ΓÇô although their tails always remain white!</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="">Fact 1<br/><br/>Arctic hares will sit perfectly still and become invisible to their enemies. They can also frequently outrun wolves and foxes.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 2<br/><br/>Arctic hares are called leverets when they are born and are a grey-brown colour. These babies are covered with fur and their eyes are open. Within three months they are the size of adults.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="">Fact 3<br/><br/>Arctic hares often fight each other, but while they box, scratch and kick, they will never bite.</fact>
