Built for cold: arctic animals

Provides an overview of the natural history, physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of Arctic wolves, and recounts the adventures of two scientists who track and study them.

Explores how researchers study walruses in Alaska and provides information on the animal's habitat, behavior, and survival methods.

Provides an overview of the natural history, physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of caribou and reindeer, and recounts the adventures of two scientists who followed a herd of caribou in order to learn about them.

Explains how polar bears have been affected by global warming and the shrinking ice caps and describes how they have adapted to their arctic habitat.

The heartwarming tale of Isobel, a sled dog that became blind but pined to be allowed back in races and still helped win them, opens this work. That story is followed by information on the first dogs in the Arctic, their adaptation to that frigid environment, the dogs' use in the gold rush and in a 1925 diphtheria outbreak in Alaska, and the Iditarod. Sidebars include one on the commands used with sled dogs.