Talk:Arctic fox

Migrations and travels: misleading because there is no seasonal ice pack around Norway to traverse

Under the Migrations and travels subsection it claims that, "The young fox crossed the polar ice from Norway to Greenland in 21 days, a distance of 1,512 kilometres (940 mi).". I think that's a misleading exaggeration and really a misquote of the BBC source article, because the BBC article actually says, "A young Arctic fox has walked across the ice from Norway's Svalbard islands to northern Canada...". But Svalbard is not Norway, those polar islands are more than 1,000 kilometres north of mainland Norway, and to boot probably nearer Greenland than Norway! There is actually never a seasonal ice pack around Norway for an adventurous Arctic fox to hike across to get to Greenland. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.172.138.82 (talk • contribs)

 Fixed. It is sort of like saying that someone who sailed from Guam to Japan sailed from the US to Japan. Technically true, but not very accurate. I changed "Norway" to "the islands". I think that probably clears it up. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:09, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2021

You need to change the status to CR because there critically endangered I've seen it on a lot of websites and other RiceRhys (talk) 22:57, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

 Not done The status refers to the entire species' status as determined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which does currently list them as "least concern" although some local populations may be more endangered. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:26, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 December 2021

The Artic Fox is critically endangered not of the least consern here is some proof: https://www.naturetravels.co.uk/blog/the-arctic-fox-beautiful-elusive-mysterious-and-critically-endangered/ and heres a quote from the website https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/Arctic_fox/

Like the polar bear, Arctic foxes face the looming reality of rising temperatures and melting ice as the Arctic quickly loses ground and its inhabitants face challenges for which evolution never prepared them. As the range of the much larger red fox pushes northward with the receding cold, Arctic foxes are abandoning dens used for generations and going in search of a new place to call home. RiceRhys (talk) 21:52, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Look, it can be discussed in the article text the dangers that they face, but I already explained last time that this is based on IUCN's classification of the species as a whole. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:32, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: as explained above. PianoDan (talk) 22:58, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

"Arctic Animals" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Arctic Animals and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 20#Arctic Animals until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 22:18, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Please edit page with consistent mesuring system.

> Arctic fox lying in grass. A fox's thick winter coat helps keep its body temperature near 100 degrees. Foxes also have fur on the soles of their feet and reduced blood flow to their legs to help keep them warm.

100 degrees F is around 37°C . The rest of the article is in °C. Please use °C and if you need it, use °F in brackets on the side.

(can't edit myself because new account) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SemNoodle (talk • contribs) 21:16, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

SemNoodle. Thanks. Fixed it and ensured all the conversions were good. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 18:35, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Statement on life expectancy seems questionable

In the first paragraph it states "In the wild, most individuals do not live past their first year but some exceptional ones survive up to 11 years." The source doesn't seem to support that. In table 3 it shows that a large number of the examined foxes in the study were around 1 year old, however it's 11 out of 26 (42%). Also the study was done on a single Greenlandic island with a relatively small sample size and was more interested in feeding habits than determining age statistics. I think it's an over-generalization to take such a small sample size from a very specific area and apply it to the entire species. sam (talk) 22:33, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

That sentence also caught my attention. From a quick search, I found this page, which says:

Arctic foxes have an average life span of 3 years in the wild once they make it to adulthood and have been observed as old as 11 years. However, pup survival rates can be very low due to food scarcity and predators, often with less than half the pups making it to the first breeding season.

That makes sense to me, though I'm not sure that site qualifies as a reputable source. The page does cite some sources of its own, though, so someone might be able to use those as references for this article. Nyvhek (talk) 06:34, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Writing 2

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Fennoscandia

Please add the link. Thanks. 99.228.43.228 (talk) 17:53, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Please use the {{edit semi-protected}} template to request your change. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:14, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Removing space

The current text is "Arctic foxes must endure a temperature difference of up to 90–100 °C (160–180 °F)". Is there a way to remove the space between the figures and the degree symbol? BrightOrion (talk) 23:46, 11 April 2024 (UTC)