Arctic Fox Sets Record In Walking From Norway To Canada

A young female fox, just shy of her first birthday, stunned scientists by covering unbelievable distance during a short four-month trek. The animal, also known as a coastal or blue fox, traveled more than 2,700 miles from Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard Archipelago of Norway, to Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The journey is among the longest dispersal events ever recorded for the species.

Researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute first fitted the fox with a tracking collar in 2017 and released her into nature as part of a larger and ongoing study about the spatial ecology of Arctic foxes, according to a report lead by researchers Eva Fuglei and Arnaud Tarroux.