The epic journey by a female fox includes fastest movement rate for species ever recorded.
Fantastic arctic fox: The animal walks 3,500km from Norway to Canada.
The animal, known as a coastal or blue fox, was fitted with a tracking device in July 2017. It left Spitsbergen in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago on 26 March 2018. After 21 days and 1,512 km out on the sea ice, it landed in Greenland on 16 April 2018. Its journey continued to Ellesmere Island in Canada, where it arrived on 1 July.
One female’s long run across sea ice” that the Arctic fox’s journey was among the longest ever recorded. It was so long, in fact, that researchers initially questioned whether the fox’s collar could have been removed and taken on board a boat.
“But no, there are no boats that go so far up in the ice. So we just had to keep up with what the fox did,” the scientist said.
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