Talk:Arctic fox/Archive 2

Fish beneath the ice are also part of its diet?
This line "Fish beneath the ice are also part of its diet", begs explanation. How can it eat fish beneath the ice? I assume they get them out from under the ice before eating them, but how do they get them when they are under the ice? Very strange, there must be some mistake or explanation. nope. Chrisrus (talk) 05:46, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Blue eyes
Arctic foxes can have blue eyes and different color eyes ItsWolfeh (talk) 04:46, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

If you have lived in Alaska for 52 years and have seen a lot of Arctic Foxes. They have amber, almost copper colored eyes. I have never seen a blue eyed Arctic Fox except for Photoshopped ones. DLuper7 (talk) 16:33, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

"Vulpes Lagopus, formerly Alopex Lagopus"
More sources on this? I can't find many major sources confirming that the Arctic fox has been moved into the Vulpes genus, nor does any page in any other language I've looked at claim this either. PWH is apart of the fox's tail that is not really well known Timmy Fox (talk) 08:21, 24 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Searching "Vulpes Lagopus" came up with search results for "Alopex Lagopus". I did however find one source for Vulpes Lagopus dating back to 2011, other than that I couldn't find anything to suggest that it was moved to a different genus. :/ Fang97 (talk) 11:07, 21 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Biology is not my forte, but I note:
 * While Paleobiology database & IUCN Red List use "Alopex", "Vulpes" is used by Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: April 2013, NCBI Taxonomy & Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 12.
 * However, following one of the cited references for "Canidae", genetic research suggests that Red foxes are more closely related to Arctics than they are to Fennecs, Blandford's, Cape & Pale foxes (all of which are "Vulpes"). Logically, if Arctics are nested with the "Vulpes" clade, then they have to be "Vulpes" as well - the alternative would mean reclassifying Fennecs etc. Caveat: I realise that other analyses may produce different trees and taxonomists might see things differently from geneticists.Glevum (talk) 13:19, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 17 August 2018
Add Popular culture section:

Make reference to the Swedish outdoor equipment brand "Fjällräven" which is named after the Swedish word for artic fox and the animal is the logo for the company as well. Amerikanen (talk) 13:33, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. NiciVampireHeart 06:25, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 May 2019
Foxes live 3-6 years Snotdonkey27 (talk) 13:05, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * "Wild arctic foxes live only 3‒4 years on average" is what our cited source says, but if you have other reliable sources you can point to them. – Þjarkur (talk) 13:32, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * According to National Geographic it's 3-6 years. I don't know if it's reliable enough for Wikipedia or not so I'm not going to update the page myself. Sak ura Cart elet Talk 18:00, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
 * If nobody objects I'm planning on making the change to the article sometime this week (by Friday at the latest). Sak ura Cart elet Talk 19:00, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi! I was going through the edit request category when I came across this section. Just wondering if there's an update/if you're still planning on making this edit? NiciVampireHeart 05:11, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I've gotten busy with various video games so I don't know when I'll get around to it. Hopefully sometime soon. Sak ura Cart elet Talk 06:12, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: On biological subjects, peer-reviewed academic sources are generally preferred for sources over popular ones such as National Geographic, even if the latter are generally considered reliable. That said, the cite for the current statement failed verification.  A better source for age already was linked for another part of the article, and this was used to re-write the age statement. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 04:12, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 October 2019
change "snow to catch its victim" to    "snow to catch its prey" 46.230.134.112 (talk) 17:21, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Sak ura Cart elet Talk 17:57, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Fur pads
Fennec (desert fox) also has fur on its feet pads. Not only the arctic fox as mentioned in the article. Rahhala (talk) 05:47, 12 December 2019 (UTC)