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Vulpes lagopus in Iceland (cropped)🦊

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SpeciesCarnivoraCanidae
Carnivores

🦊Arctic fox

Vulpes lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Kutup tilkisi (Vulpes lagopus), köpekgiller (Canidae) familyasına dahil Vulpes cinsi içinde yer alan, arktik bölgelere özgü küçük bir tilkidir. Kutup tilkilerinin kürkü kışın beyaz, yazın koyu kahverengidir. Kürkü avcılar için ilgi çekicidir. Uzun, tüylü ve kalın kuyruğunu şiddetli soğuklarda atkı ya da yorgan olarak kullanabilir. Koku alma yetisi çok gelişmiştir. Hızlı bir koşucu, iyi bir yüzücüdür, Kuzey Kutbu'nda kış başlangıcında, mart-nisan aylarında kutup tilkisi çiftleri gelecekteki yavruları için yuva hazırlarlar. Bu yuvaların çoğu kuşaktan kuşağa miras kalır. Bazılarının 300 yıl kadar kullanıldığı saptanmıştır. Kutup tilkisi köpekgiller arasında tek seferde en fazla yavru dünyaya getiren cinstir. Yavru sayısı ortalama 11'dir; bazen 22'ye çıktığı olur. Erkek tilki avlanıp yiyecekleri (küçük kemirgenler, kuşlar, bazı meyveler, leşler) yuvaya taşırken, dişi ise yavrularıyla ilgilenir. Yavrular aşağı yukarı 4 aylıkken yuvadan ayrılırlar. Bu süre içinde çift birlikte yaşarlar. Kutup tilkisinin insanlardan başka başlıca düşmanları vaşak ve kutup ayısıdır.

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25
Photos
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Measurements
13
vs you
≈ 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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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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