Backstage, I gave a gift of dried musk ox to performer Lamech Kadloo, and in seeming reciprocation, Nunavut matched it with our first ‘wildlife’ sightings: A glimpse of polar bear hides drying ...

Living in small societies built around a few families, they moved with the seasons to hunt seals, polar bears, walruses and beluga whales on the coast and caribou and musk ox on the tundra.

In addition to polar bears, a herd of over 200,000 caribou call the ANWR home. Over 200 bird species call the region home for at least part of the year, and species like musk oxen, grizzly bears ...

Some country foods are seal, walrus, whale, musk ox and Arctic hare ... to survive the freezing conditions in polar regions, and how polar bears have also adapted to live in the Arctic.