PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Height: at the shoulder, the arctic fox is 10 to 12 inches tall, that's about 25 to 30 cm.

They weigh from 6 to 10 pounds.

They are normally white in the winter and brownish grey in the summer.
 

HABITAT AND LIFE CYCLE

Litters average seven pups but may have as many as 15 young.

They eat lemmings, and left-overs from polar bears.

Page last updated on September 6, 2001