Epic journey by female fox includes fastest movement rate for species ever recorded
An arctic fox has walked more than 3,500km (2,000 miles) from Norway to Canada in just 76 days, astonishing researchers at the Norwegian Polar Institute.
The animal, known as a coastal or blue fox, was fitted with a tracking device in July 2017. It left Spitsbergen, in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago on 26 March 2018. After 21 days and 1,512 km out on the sea ice, it landed in Greenland on April 16, 2018. It’s journey continued to Ellesemere Island in Canada, where it arrived on 1 July.
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