Arctic Region Canada Animals. Using the best available scientific knowledge, we work to preserve the diversity and abundance of life in canada and around the world. The north pole is in the middle of the arctic ocean which is surrounded by the land masses of north america, europe and asia so there is a land connection to the south meaning that land animals can more easily reach the arctic unlike antarctica where animals must be able to swim or fly across hundreds of miles of frigid.
It has sometimes been used to designate the area within the arctic circle—a mathematical line that is. The people and animals that live in the arctic depend on its unique ecosystem to survive. In canada, the yukon, northwest territories and nunavut are in the arctic region.
Muskoxen used their strong hooves to search foods from snow covered lands, roots and mosses are main food of muskoxen.
Because of little precipitation, the arctic region is actually a desert;. Generally speaking, arctic region is considered the area within the boundaries of arctic circle. And with the region warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, arctic ice is melting even faster, as the ocean absorbs the heat. Modern arctic land fauna in canada may be traced back to the pleistocene epoch (see ice age).a few thousand years ago, during the last continental glaciation, thick sheets of ice covered most of canada and much of the northern united states.arctic animals have descended from species that occupied land that revegetated after the retreat of the ice.