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Arctic FoxEducational resources on Arctic FoxArctic Fox [an error occurred while processing this directive] IUCN Profile of the Arctic Fox Arctic Wildlife - Arctic Studies Center Arctic Fox Alopex lagopus. A well adapted predator, the arctic fox has a gray, or blue coat in the summer and a thick, warm white coat in the winter. www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/arctic_fox.html Arctic Fox Common Name: Arctic Fox Classification: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Genus: Alopex Species: lagopus www.ben.edu/museum/arcticfox.asp ADW: Vulpes lagopus: Information The arctic fox has been driven out of some regions, such as northern Scandinavia, because of predators like the red fox. The arctic fox has been hunted by humans for its pelt, and animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Vulpes_lagopus.html Arctic Fox The Arctic fox is a predator of lemmings, ground-nesting seabirds, young seals, and a variety of other small wildlife. Because the lemming is its primary food bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/olson_alex/interactions.htm Arctic Fox Research project by Alex Olson on this species including its classification, habitat, reproduction, adaptations to its cold environment, nutrition and interactions with other bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/olson_alex Alligator Arctic Fox: Alopex Lagopus . The Arctic fox at the Burnet Park Zoo in Syracuse, NY : General Information. The Arctic fox belongs to the mammal class lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/arcticfox.html Arctic Fox The Arctic fox, while classified in the order Carnivora, is more accurately an omnivore. Its diet consists primarily of rodents, but it will also eat ground-nesting bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/olson_alex/Nutrition.htm THE ARCTIC FOX The Arctic fox gets as tall as fifty to sixty centimeters long. The Arctic fox weighs seven to fifteen pounds. Their tails are about thirty centimeters long. www.ucls.uchicago.edu/students/projects/1996-97/Hillocks96/arctic_fox.html Arctic Fox Eukarya: sexual reproduction, multiple linear chromosomes within the cells, and an endomembrane system that compartmentalizes the cytoplasm, leading to membrane-bound bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/olson_alex/classification.htm Arctic Fox Social Behavior An arctic fox. Photo courtesy of Anders Angerbjörn. Visit the . Swedish-Finnish-Norwegian Arctic Fox Project for more information. As the only canine to make a permanent home in www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/Behavior/Spring2007/Newsom/index.html
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