Our writer spent 30 hours traveling with arctic wolves and gained a new appreciation for these predators of the tundra. Wolves pick at the remains of a muskox. To get this image, photographer ...

While the warm weather brings a pulse of life to the north, our story reveals how in the Arctic there are no easy seasons. Food is scarce on the tundra, and the wolves fall on hard times.

We faced numerous challenges: 100+km quad bike journeys over rugged tundra, hordes of mosquitos ... How this will affect the wolves is unclear. Arctic wolves are great generalists, able to ...

The wolves changed too. As winter set in, their coats became thick and bright white, perfectly blending with the snowy tundra. Although harder to spot, at least it meant we could follow their tracks.

The Arctic wolf has evolved to withstand the harsh conditions ... Reindeer live on the open tundra and in forested regions, grazing on the plentiful vegetation that the tundra provides in warmer ...