The Arctic Fox is quite small, up to 60cm long with a tail around 30cm. Their Winter fur is thick and long to protect from the icy Winters in the Tundra. The foxes often cross Arctic sea ice in order to move between land masses. Captions and Photo source: ©© Peter Prokosch / UNEP
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New scientific results show that arctic foxes accumulate dangerous levels of mercury if they live in coastal habitats and feed on prey which lives in the ocean.
Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Moscow State University and the University of Iceland just published their discovery in the science online journal PLOS ONE…
