Status
Least Concern
Habitat
High Arctic tundra and ice
Range
Arctic · North America
Group
Wolves
The only large predator that has never learned to fear people.
Because the high Arctic was never settled at density, Arctic wolves have no cultural memory of humans as a threat. They will approach out of curiosity — a behaviour that is unnerving, scientifically valuable, and entirely a product of absence.
Territories here can exceed 2,500 square kilometres. Prey is sparse, travel is constant, and the animals may go days between meals.
Where we photograph it
The open shelf
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