this from Eurasia's northern polar-areas, North America and Greenland's descendant ice or polar-fox is a member of the dog-family with pointed muzzle and high legs. it weighs at most 9 kg and reaches 30 cm of shoulder-height. its tail is almost body-long with 30-40 cm, the soles are densely hairy. The summer-fur is whitish tan light with white glimmer and on the underside.
Color-hits In the winter-fur, two different color-hits appear, after which the foxes are called also "white-fox" and "blue-fox." The white-fox is snow-white in fully from-colored condition, eyes and nose are down gloomily put; the blue-fox against it varies from black, steel-blue or maroon to light-gray. Particularly the blue variation is very rare and in the fur trade extremely valued. Of Siberia, ice-fox-farms, in which a pure-breeding is tried, therefore consist.
Nutrition The ice-fox lives in the entire North-polar-area and is one of the few real ice-animals with it among the country-mammals. There is not virtually anything, which the ice-fox doesn't utilize as food. So, it eats beside all, only somehow to overpowering creatures also washed up carrion, the remains of the loot of polar bears and particularly their high-fat excrements.
Reproduction Ice-foxes live in gladly detached, ice-free hills of clay and sand, in which the Fähe digs a new residential-kettle at every reproductive-time. So, extensive holes are built in the course of time. Particularly during the combination-time in March of April, the ice-foxes are extremely voice-joyful. After 49-56 days of Tragzeit becomes according to nutritional-situation 1-14 until June in April (!) Young born that is suckled until 10 weeks. Most boys don't survive the first life-months. The male dog takes part in the Aufzucht, it tows the Fähe and the offspring lining along and defends the construction and the family.
Farm-attitude Unfortunately many ice-foxes are held in farms because of theirs of desired fur where they waste away agonizingly in the narrowness of its cages.
Steppe-fox (Alopex corsac)) The second representative of the type Alopex is the very similar steppe-fox or Korsak, a vagabond of the steppe-areas of Russia, the Mongolia and the Manchuria. To be in the summer changes reddish sand-colored fur into a whitish gray in the winter. In its biology and its holding back, it essentially doesn't differ from the ice-fox.
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