Are you as smart as an arctic fox?
Do you know why the aurora is also called"fox fires"?
The arcaic fox is one of the few truly arctic animals and of course the slyest animal in the world.It can with stand temperatures as low as -50度.In the winte,it has a thick,warm white coat.While in the summer its color changes to aray or blue.
The arctic fox is the stuff of myth and legend.Harking back to an old folk tale,it is about an arctic fox running in the snow and touching the mounains with its fur,causing sparks to fly up and i l luninate the sky.In another version of the syory,the fox throws sparks into the sky by whipping snow upward with its brush lile tail.In morthern Lapland,the aurora borealis can be seen more than 200 nights a year,making for some very busy foxes!