Arctic Fox Research

Appearance: The Artic Fox’s appearance is usually white like snow deep thick soft fur but can mix with summer brown from head to toe. Based on an average of Artic Fox most male are 18 to 27 inches in range, a length of 22 inches from body to head; the females have a range of 16 to 22 inches, and 20 inches from head to body. The males weigh 7.7 lb while the female weigh 6.4 lb. Their body shape is usually well rounded to keep in heat. They use their teeth and claws for many actions due to their sharpness. They have 12 body parts 2 eyes, and no crest with their soft fur. It only molts twice a year.                                                                                                                                                                  Locomotion: The Artic Fox can move pretty flawless, and can even run up to 30mph! They are mammals that walk, but can dig with their claws with the ability to jump almost higher than 2 feet! They haft to be fast to catch their small prey like lemmings, voles, rodents, birds, hares, fish, and carrions. Their speed allows them to outrun the fast wolves, and slip away from giant polar bears. Even when their cobs they are vulnerable to snowy owls but aren’t predated by wolves or bears.                                                                                                      Diet: The Artic Foxes diet consist of the usual prey (lemmings, voles, rodents, birds, hares, eggs, fish and, carrions) they also focus for their dead predator’s bodies to eat. They can eat dozens of lemmings a day. In locations like northern, Canada they have a huge food source from seasonal breeding migrating birds. During May to April they can hunt on ringed seals. They mainly consist of eating birds buy are also omnivores because of their consumption of berries vegetables and seaweed. In all they can’t consume one of the largest eggs such as the peregrine falcon. The Arctic Fox is Trophic level (middle food web).                                                                HABITAT: The Arctic Foxes biome is the tundra in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Russia, Norway, Scandinavia, and Iceland.