In a span of four months, a young female arctic fox walked a distance of 2,737 miles in order to find a place to breed. From the Norway's Svalbard archipelago, it traversed the arctic making its way to Canada through Greenland.
The researchers still have no idea why the arctic fox needed to leave its birth place to find another site for breeding but they were able to track its movements by fitting it with a satellite tracking collar.
Institute scientists monitored the fox's movements with a satellite tracking device they fitted her with in July 2017 near her native habitat by a glacier on Norway's Spitsbergen island. She stayed close to home then gradually ventured out until she left the island on March 26, 2018.
During the walk to Canada, the roughly 2-year-old fox moved at an average rate of 46.3 kilometers per day (28.7 miles per day), the Norwegian scientists said. -via Mainichi
(Image credit: Elise Stroemseng/Norwegian Polar Institute via AP)
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