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This Young Arctic Fox Walked 2,700 Miles From Norway to Canada
While it is not uncommon for the species to travel vast distances, this is the first known recording of an Arctic Fox covering so such mileage within four months. Elise Stroemseng
A juvenile female Arctic Fox walked from Norway to Canada by way of Greenland, which is not unheard of for the species who are built to endure sub-freezing temperatures.
She covered an average of ~29-miles per day.
Most impressive is the fact that the fox only took 4-months to travel 2,737 miles, crossing frozen seas during her journey.
A young female Arctic Fox has traversed land and frozen sea to travel a total of 2,737 miles from Spitsbergen, the biggest island in Norway s Svalbard Archipelago, to the Canadian island of Ellesmere.
Skinnier but resilient geese thriving in the high Arctic
The world is changing in dramatic ways, especially in the High Arctic. Climate change has meant that spring arrives earlier, but winters have become far more treacherous for Arctic animals that overwinter there, with more rain and ice.
So what about birds that don t overwinter in the Arctic, but nest and raise young there? Researchers have spent nearly three decades collecting data on a group of barnacle geese that migrate to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to see how the geese respond to environmental changes overall.
In one study they found that earlier springs linked with climate change meant better conditions for the geese, but that these benefits were cancelled out by an increase in numbers of hungry foxes a precarious balance that could change depending on future conditions.