Arctic Fox Photo Gallery

Abstract: Arctic foxes, also known as blue foxes and white foxes, are distributed in the Arctic and operate throughout the Arctic, including Russia, Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Svalbard, as well as subarctic and alpine regions, such as Iceland and Scandinavia. The food is mainly lemming, but also fish, birds, eggs, shellfish, Arctic rabbits and berries. It is a precious fur animal, which has been artificially bred.

Arctic foxes, also known as blue foxes and white foxes, are distributed in the Arctic and operate throughout the Arctic, including Russia, Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Svalbard, as well as subarctic and alpine regions, such as Iceland and Scandinavia, where lemmings are the main food, and they also eat fish, birds, eggs, shellfish, arctic rabbits and berries.

Arctic fox body length 50-60 cm, tail length 20-25 cm, weight 2.5-4 kg, narrow face, sharp mouth, round ears, fluffy tail hair, tip white, winter body hair is white, only nose tip is black, summer body hair is gray-black, ventral color is lighter, with very dense villi and fewer needle hair, can live on the ice sheet of minus 50 ℃, plantar hair is especially thick, alone or in groups.

The arctic fox likes to build its nest in hilly areas. The nest has several entrances and exits. When there is a snowstorm, it can stay in the nest for several days without coming out, and carry out some maintenance and expansion for its nest every year, so that it can live for a long time. When food is abundant in summer, the arctic fox will store part of its food in its nest, and when the food stored in the nest is exhausted in winter, the white fox will track the polar bear. The polar bear eats leftovers from the polar bear, but when the polar bear is very hungry, it also attacks the arctic fox.

Arctic foxes can migrate over long distances and have strong navigation skills. They can migrate 4600 kilometers in five and a half months, with an average of 90 kilometers a day, and can travel for several days in a row. They can migrate from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast in a few months, the distance is close to the east-west distance of Canada, can navigate hundreds of kilometers, and leave their nests in winter to migrate to places 600 kilometers away. Return home the following summer.

There is a strict hierarchy between arctic foxes, and one of them can dominate and control the other female foxs. in addition, members of the same group share the same territory, and if these territories have to be connected with neighboring groups, they rarely overlap. March is usually the estrus of arctic foxes, with a record of 8-10 per litter, with a record of 16.