Sentences with phrase «arctic fox»

Keep it faux with this super chic arctic fox fur cushion.

«The challenge for scientists is to help understand the repercussions of these changes - for example, we've seen red foxes take over areas previously used by arctic foxes.

For example, although the winter coats of arctic foxes in many regions of the world are bright white, in Hornstrandir, especially along the coast, as many as two - thirds of the foxes wear a very different color.

Today, there are around 8,000 arctic foxes in Iceland, and in places like Hornstrandir Nature Reserve on Iceland's northwest coast, the foxes are fantastic.

Ice loss can cause less genetic diversity among animals like arctic foxes that use the ice as a travel pathway, while also creating the opposite effect with other species.

In Never Alone you'll play as a child named Nuna and Fox (a cute arctic fox) as they travel through the Arctic for a great adventure experience.

In the meantime, I hope my thesis work will address some equally interesting questions: how migration of barren - ground caribou impacts wolf movement, whether there is such a thing as the arctic wolf (currently listed «data deficient» by the Committee for the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada), whether arctic foxes migrate or just disperse, and how lemming cycles affect that decision.

It's inhospitable and practically inaccessible, but the island's wildlife — including arctic fox, polar bears and musk oxen — are a strong draw for scientists and photographers.

But now, hunting licenses are required to shoot arctic foxes; poisoning is still prohibited; and fox populations are carefully monitored.

As with a coral reef or a rain forest, structure is habitat, and on the treeless coastal plain the oil structures provide welcome cover, perches and nesting or denning sites for predators, particularly arctic foxes, ravens and gulls.

* increased predation by arctic fox, gulls and ravens on nesting birds due to introduction of garbage as a consistent food source

By then, the population of arctic foxes had dwindled to a mere 1,000 to 1,300 members.

Learn how to draw a cute arctic fox!

The focus of my research is population structure and gene flow in North American arctic canids: grey wolves and arctic foxes.

The IUCN website also points out that, while the polar bear has come to symbolize the impact of global warming on wildlife, many other species are similarly affected, including the ringed seal and well - known species like the beluga whale, arctic fox, koala and emperor penguin.

Seasons mark stark contrasts on Wrangel Island, as embodied by this arctic fox, mid-molt from its winter to summer fur.

Notable animals in the arctic tundra include caribou (reindeer), musk ox, arctic hare, arctic fox, snowy owl, lemmings, and polar bears (only the extreme north).

Other species included mammoth, elk, wild cattle, wolf, arctic fox, arctic hare and brown bear.

On the other hand, some changing disease patterns could be beneficial — arctic foxes may not be able to carry rabies to Svalbard via an ice trek as they have in the past, for example.

Species such as fin and humpback whales are now spending more time in the Arctic, and boreal species such as the red fox and brown bear now interact more routinely with their arctic counterparts — the arctic fox and polar bear.

An arctic fox pup, just beginning to show its white winter coat, plays with a lemming carcass.

She looks like an arctic fox as she has white underside but very Pomeranian reddish brown fox like top coat with a lil black mixed in.

Go ashore at Bering Island to visit the gravesite of Danish explorer Vitus Bering, and seek out arctic foxes and horned and tufted puffins.

Sail along this extraordinary coastline and encounter wildlife such as narwhal, arctic fox, polar bear and musk oxen, against a backdrop of awe - inspiring scenery.

Highlights include whales, seals, walrus, reindeer, arctic fox, together with millions of migratory seabirds.

You may encounter remarkable wildlife, including polar bears, arctic foxes, walruses, reindeer and whales, plus a wonderful variety of birds.

San Diego Zoo is award winning and is home to a huge variety of wildlife, including desert and tropical animals, polar bears and arctic foxes.

Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) tells the story of Nuna and her arctic fox companion as they battle to save their village from a never ending snowstorm.

Play as a young Iñupiat girl and an arctic fox as they set out to find the source of the eternal blizzard which threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.

As climate change is heating things up in Iceland — the Arctic is warming up twice as fast as the global average, by some accounts — the arctic fox may need to put that resilience to test.

By 1994, the new Ministry had developed the first legislation to offer protection to arctic foxes: The Protection and Hunting of Wild Species Act.

Even though they've come close to doom, these arctic foxes prove their moxie and resilience — especially once humans stopped trying to kill them all.

Newborn pups were left lying on the bare ice, subject to thermoregulatory stress and vulnerable to significantly increased predation by polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus).

2007/04/17: PNAS: Ancient DNA reveals lack of postglacial habitat tracking in the arctic fox by Love Dalén et al..

In the spirit of the season, I'm relenting to offer those of you who aren't fans of city - sounds a link to nature's audio channels, this from the Western Soundscape Archive in the US, where, although you can't listen to the buffalo roam, you can hear the bark of arctic foxes or the relaxing sound of ice cracking on Timber Lake, Alaska.