Fox travels 3,500 kilometers, from Norway to Canada, in 76 days

A copy arctic fox female walked a distance of more than 3 thousand 500 kilometers in solo 76 days, a record number detected by researchers of the Norwegian Polar Institute, which has specified that the animal he transfer about him ice since Norway until Canada.

The long trip of the Fox, who was put a locator in July 2017, started on Spitsbergen the March 26, 2018 and after travel a thousand 512 kilometers about him arctic ice, was located in Greenland, and from there he continued to the Canadian island of Ellesmerewhere did the 1st of July.

In total, therefore, the animal covered a distance of 3 thousand 506 kilometers, explained the experts of the Norwegian Polar Institute, who pointed out that the total is stretched even up to 4 thousand 415 kilometers if the detected one is added until it left the Norwegian island.

Fjellreven vandret via havisen fra #Svalbard I Europe useful #Canada Nord-Amerika and et tempo ingen forskere tidligere har dokumentert. Photo: Elise Stømseng Les mer: https://t.co/Gk3xirq3YE pic.twitter.com/adzOVNFfyx

– Norsk Polarinstitutt (@NorskPolar) June 26, 2019

This is the first time that the displacement of an Arctic fox between several continents and Arctic ecosystems is verified.

It is one of the longest walks ever documented for a fox (of that species) in such a short time, "said the Norwegian institute.

Fast step

The fox's follow-up made it possible to verify that he initially traveled long stretches of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and then over Greenland glaciers, with an average speed of about 46 kilometers a day.

But it reached its highest speed on ice in an area of ​​the interior of Greenland, where it reached a distance of 155 kilometers in one day.

The northernmost location where this Arctic fox female was detected was 84.7 degrees North.

Although at first it was thought that someone could have removed the locator to the animal given the incredible distance it had traveled, the researcher Eva Fuglei, of the said institute, said that the idea was discarded since "there are no ships that sail so north between the ice".

However, researchers have had to comply with the data that allowed them to follow the animal to Canada since the locator stopped transmitting its signal last February.

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