already have a pad under their foot such as polar bears, wolverines, Arctic wolves and Arctic foxes will have fur under their pads to help keep their flesh concealed from the cold. Other mammals such as the musk oxen can keep warm by growing long, shaggy fur to help insulate heat. And this can be quickly shed off when warmer temperatures arrive. But with the snowshoe hare it will change the color of its fur from white to brown or with patches of brown when it sheds off its winter coat. This is to help camouflage itself in its new environment to match with the dirt during the summer or back again when it regrows its longer white fur to match with the snow during the winter. Mountainous regions Other chionophiles can be found on or near the equator and yet still live in freezing temperatures. This is mostly due to their geographical range, such as on high altitude mountains where it can reach very cold temperatures and have less oxygen the higher the altitude. These may include the Andes, the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush mountains, where animals such as snow leopards, pumas, wild yaks, mountain sheep, mountain goats, ibex, vicuñas and guanacos can thrive. Known chionophiles The following animals are known chionophiles: ABC Islands bear Adélie penguin Alaska marmot Alaska moose Alaska Peninsula brown bear Alaskan hare Alaskan tundra wolf Antarctic fur seal Antarctic petrel Antarctic tern Arctic fox Arctic hare Arctic redpoll Arctic tern Arctic warbler Arctic wolf Atlantic puffin Baird's sandpiper Baffin Island wolf Barnacle goose Barren ground shrew Barren-ground caribou Bearded seal Black guillemot Black-bellied storm petrel Black-legged kittiwake Brown skua Buff-breasted sandpiper Cape petrel Chinstrap penguin Common murre Crabeater seal Crested auklet Emperor penguin Gentoo penguin Glaucous gull Great skua Greater white-fronted goose Grey plover Grey seal Gyrfalcon Harbor seal Harp seal Heuglin's gull Hooded seal Iceland gull Ivory gull Kelp gull King eider Lapland longspur Least auklet Lemming Leopard seal Lesser white-fronted goose Little auk Little stint Long-tailed jaeger Macaroni penguin Muskox Nelson's collared lemming Northern collared lemming Northern elephant seal Northern fur seal North American brown lemming Pacific golden plover Parasitic jaeger Peary caribou Pectoral sandpiper Polar bear Pomarine jaeger Purple sandpiper Red knot Red phalarope Red-legged kittiwake Reindeer Ribbon seal Ringed seal Ross seal Ross's gull Ruddy turnstone Sabine's gull Sanderling Siberian brown lemming Snow bunting Snow goose Snow petrel Snowshoe