Talk:Arctic fox/Archive 1

Map
The map in the article is grossly inaccurate at least in the European part, distribution of the Arctic Fox is strictly restricted on the tundra and near tundra. In other habitats the red fox is the only fox. Dreg743 06:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Diet?
What do the actic foxes eat, how do they get their food? What is their habitat, climate, and a destribution of where it lives?


 * From the article:
 * Arctic foxes eat a wide variety of things, including lemmings, birds and their eggs, carrion, and plants. The most important of these foods is the lemming. A family of foxes can eat dozens of lemmings each day. When their normal prey is scarce, Arctic foxes have been known to scavenge the leftovers of larger predators, such as polar bears, even though polar bears' prey includes the Arctic fox itself.


 * Arctic foxes have a circumpolar range, meaning that they are found throughout the entire Arctic, including Russia, Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Svalbard, as well as in sub-Arctic areas, such as Iceland and parts of Norway. Dsmdgold 00:46, May 3, 2005 (UTC)

Photos of arctic foxes
Two of the photos in the article about the arctic fox is on farmed arctic foxes. It is OK if this is spelled out. But it would be better to include pictures on wild arctic foxes. The summer fox from Svalbard is nice and I would like to see two pictures on winter foxes, one white and one blue.

Anders Angerbjörn —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.237.191.34 (talk) 07:57, 10 February 2007 (UTC).

Out of place references
Is it really necessary to compare the colors of the foxes to that of "NHL Powerhouse, Toronto Maple Leafs". For one thing, it's highly unprofessional since it's merely an opinion, and secondly, hockey has nothing to do with foxes. 76.50.85.173 04:21, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed, and removed. --Michael Johnson 04:38, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Move Article to "Arctic Fox" with capital F?
Looking at Category:Foxes this is the only article about a species of fox (with the word fox in the title) that doesn't capitalize the F of Fox in the title. But strangely it does in the first line. I think this article should be moved to Arctic Fox for this reason. Maybe I will it myself and hope I don't annoy anyone in the process.

Carlwev (talk) 15:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

--69.124.62.38 (talk) 01:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)tyr

Reclassify to Vulpus Lagopus
2003 and 2005 genetic research has caused them to reclassify alopex into vulpus as there is enough genetic similarities. Arcticfoxslash (talk) 19:46, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

interlink
For some reason this page does not link to articles in other languages despite there are loads of links in the code... same story for the categories and footnotes... I can't understand why, I tried to correct that but I was not succesful :( --Munifico (talk) 00:08, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Fixed. There was vandalism that removed the end of a reference marker, which caused the parser to assume everything after that point (including th category and interwiki links) to be hidden. - UtherSRG (talk) 00:50, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

description
All of the arctic foxes are white in the winter, and brown in the summer. The arctic fox live farther north than any other fox. A arctic fox is 43inches. They are well adopted for the cold harsh weather than the Arctic. The arctic fox can hunt lemming that they can't see beneath the snow, but if the arctic fox can not kill enough to eat, it will settle for leftovers from other animals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.117.202.60 (talk • contribs)
 * Do you have a verifiable and reliable source for this information? If so, please add the information to the article and cite your source. - UtherSRG (talk) 06:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

This is not true. Some foxes stay brown all year round (especially those who live near the sea) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.148.70.66 (talk) 11:52, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Clean up
The second and third sentences read "It is a small fox native to cold Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It is common in all three tundra biomes". But a look at tundra (and biome) indicates that the three are Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine. I don't think the fox is found in the Antarctic or Tibet.

The first sentence in the "Adaptations" section says "The Arctic Fox has evolved to live in the most frigid extremes on the planet." but again I don't think the fox is found in the Antarctic which is a lot colder than the Arctic. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 10:17, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

About your website
Your website is quite good but all i need to know is how many arctic foxes live in Iceland ive got to hand it in on tuesday. But i just can't find out this information.Not in any website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.14.246 (talk) 15:37, 25 January 2009 (UTC)