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Arctic Fox

            This Arctic Fox was carrying a dead Brunnich's Guillemot at the nesting cliffs at Alkefjellet.  It was so determined to get back with this prize to its hungry cubs that it never paused to make eye contact, and it disappeared in a matter of seconds.  We saw a number of other Arctic Foxes but they were always a bit too far for photographs.

Arctic Foxes are amazing animals surviving seriously low temperatures.  One young female was fitted with a GPS tracker on Svalbard in 2019.  She then walked from east Spitsbergen across the sea ice to Greenland, then across to Ellesmere Island in Arctic Canada.  She covered 2179 miles in 76 days before her tracker stopped working.  Another was reported actually at the North Pole.

Its scientific name is Alopex lagopus.  Alopex is Greek for fox and we get the word Alopecia (hair loss) from this root because of fox mange.  Lagopus means hare-footed because of their fluffy feet.  And incidentally, molecular studies suggest Arctic Fox should be in the genus Vulpes with most of the other foxes.

Taken on: July 11, 2023

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Arctic

Polar

Alopex

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