The scientific name for the arctic fox is Alopex lagopus, which means fox with rabbit feet. The varieties are the white and blue foxes. They get to be about 32 inches long. Their height is about 12 inches. They weigh from 7-15 lb. Their thick fur keeps them warm in temperatures of down to -40 degrees F. In -100 degree weather they would probably just shiver! They hunt small mammals like voles and lemmings. They also eat birds and their eggs and feed on the carcasses of seals, caribou, musk oxen, whales, and walruses. In the summer the eat berries. The human is the arctic fox's biggest enemy. Humans hunt the fox's for their beautiful fur.

The arctic fox has small rounded ears almost completely covered in fur. If they weren't that way they would lose lots of heat. The white fox is white in winter and grayish-brown in summer. The blue fox is a blue-gray all year long. The arctic fox is a mammal. It is a carnivore. The arctic fox has feet covered with fur to keep them warm. The fox's eyes look like cat eyes.

The arctic fox lives in the Arctic, very near the North Pole. The blue fox's fur is more valuable than the white fox's. The arctic fox lives in the polar region all year long. Scientists have seen as many as 40 foxes feeding on one dead walrus! The fox's fur is white for camouflage and for heat. White fur is warmer than colored fur.

Baby foxes are in my opinion, very cute. Vixens normally have 5 or 6 pups. Although in some years when there is lots of food they have as many as 15. The pups open their eyes when they are about one week old. Toward the end of summer the babies start hunting by themselves and by mid summer, are thrown out of the den.