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Vulpes lagopus in Iceland (cropped)🦊

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SpeciesCarnivoraCanidae
Carnivores

🦊Arctic fox

Vulpes lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758)

북극여우(학명: Vulpes lagopus, 동의어 Alopex lagopus) 또는 흰여우(영어: White fox)는 북극지방 툰드라(tundra) 지역에 서식하는, 여우의 한 종류이다.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/17th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
3.6 kg
Body length
0.62 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
16 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Arctic fox

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
3.6 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 5.2 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.62 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
38 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
16 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 16 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
5.12 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
294 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
52 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 52 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 8
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 9AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
14 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.1 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
3.6 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Arctic fox yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyCanidae
  6. ›genusVulpes
  7. ›speciesVulpes lagopus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. suborderCaniformia
  4. familyCanidae
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyCanidae
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More about the Arctic fox

Closest relative on this site
🐺 Corsac fox — last shared an ancestor ≈ 4.3 million years ago.
What it eats
warm-blooded animals70%
insects and other invertebrates10%
fish10%
carrion10%
In other languages
Alopex lagopus (es), 北極狐 (zh), Lis polarny (pl), Αρκτική αλεπού (el), fjällräv (sv), poolvos (nl) … and 27 more languages

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