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Fluffball foxes wander thousands of kilometres to find a home

The Arctic fox, which weighs less than many house cats, covers long distances in the frigid north.
A white Arctic fox stretching his back legs

An Arctic fox stretches. Satellite tracking showed that the animals can journey thousands of kilometres across the tundra in less than a year. Credit: Sergey Gorshkov/Nature Picture Library

Although it weighs in at just 3 kilograms, the Arctic fox traverses vast distances on its dainty legs — and more foxes do so than previously thought, researchers have found1.

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Nature 614, 199 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00230-x

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  1. Gravel, R., Lai, S. & Berteaux, D. R. Soc. Open Sci. 10, 220729 (2023).

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