Animals in Alaska

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

Known as the “Official Greeter of Juneau,” this dog still welcomes ships and their passengers to Alaska.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.