AnimalsA few impressions of memorable encounters with the local fauna. |
![Animals Animals](icons/ermine_stand.jpg) Ermine (Mustela erminea) | ![Animals Animals](icons/ermine_jump.jpg) Ooops, the click of the camera! | ![Animals Animals](icons/ermine_back.jpg) Uhm, are you dangerous? | ![Animals Animals](icons/ermin_close.jpg) Can I eat you? |
![Animals Animals](icons/caribou_many.jpg) Peary Caribou near Crusoe Camp, 2008 (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) | ![Animals Animals](icons/caribou_face.jpg) Male Peary Caribou near Little Matterhorn | ![Animals Animals](icons/carbou_profile.jpg) An impressive animal! | ![Animals Animals](icons/muskox.jpg) A heard of muskox from the air (Ovibos moschatus) |
![Animals Animals](icons/77_hare_glaciers.jpg) Arctic hare near MARS camp in 1977 (Lepus arcticus) | ![Animals Animals](icons/bunny_escape.jpg) Arctic hare (2008) | ![Animals Animals](icons/wolf_crusoe.jpg) Arctic wolf near Crusoe camp (Canis lupus arctos) | ![Animals Animals](icons/wolf_look.jpg) Coming closer... (2008) |
![Animals Animals](icons/77_wolf_colour_peak.jpg) An arctic wolf at MARS camp in 1977 | ![Animals Animals](icons/77_wolf_tent.jpg) Whose territory is this? | ![Animals Animals](icons/77_wolf_relax.jpg) Wolf-napping | ![Animals Animals](icons/77_juerg_wolf.jpg) Close encounter of the arctic kind |
![Animals Animals](icons/gull_below.jpg) Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) | ![Animals Animals](icons/gull_fjord.jpg) Gull attack... | ![Animals Animals](icons/gull_front.jpg) ...again and again | ![Animals Animals](icons/brant_geese.jpg) Brant Geese, pale-bellied population (Branta bernicla) |
![Animals Animals](icons/brant_geese_funny.jpg) Brant Geese marching back and forth) | ![Animals Animals](icons/ptarmigan_silhouette.jpg) Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutal) | ![Animals Animals](icons/ptarmigan_camouflage.jpg) Ptarmingan camouflage | ![Animals Animals](icons/black_white.jpg) Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) |
![Animals Animals](icons/hurt_bird.jpg) Red Knot (Calidris camutus) | ![Animals Animals](icons/snow_bunting.jpg) Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) | ![Animals Animals](icons/baby_snow_bunting.jpg) Baby Snow Bunting (Chamerion latifolium (L.) Holub) | ![Animals Animals](icons/dead_bunting.jpg) This baby Red Knot did not make it... |
Photos Jürg Alean; special thanks to Spencer Hardy. |