Arctic Tundra Animals Food Web. Then the arctic fox scavenges for the. The arctic hare eats the arctic willow, which is also eaten by the lemming.
Few alpine animals, however, contributed directly to the evolution of arctic tundra species, because physical barriers prevented the migration of species and because alpine and arctic animals were specialized to their. The ermine also consumes the lemming. But animals are able to find food there to live.
Mosquitoes, flies, moths, grasshoppers, arctic bumblebees, and other insects are at the bottom of the arctic food chain.
Secondary consumers are the animals that eat the primary consumers. It has a wide prey base that includes lemmings, voles, fish, seabirds, and more. Some of them are lapland longspur, mosquitoes, and snowy owl, also seals, sea lions, and killer whales. Animals found in the arctic tundra include herbivorous mammals (lemmings, voles, caribou, arctic hares, and squirrels), carnivorous mammals (arctic foxes, wolves, and polar bears), fish (cod, flatfish, salmon, and trout), insects (mosquitoes, flies, moths, grasshoppers, and blackflies), and birds (ravens, snow buntings, falcons, loons, sandpipers, terns, and gulls).