What is "arctic foxes"

Usage examples of "arctic foxes".

There it began to compete with the amphibian for scraps of the carcass, just as in later times Arctic foxes would try to steal the kills of polar bears.

He glanced down and his eyes showed his pleasure at the thick, lush, winter-white pelts of arctic foxes she held out to him.

Here and there he noticed thicker tussocks of grass, speckled with wild flowers, fed by the detritus at the entrances to the dens of the Arctic foxes, and on the slight rises where owls and jaegers devoured their prey, watering the soil with blood.

So Herbert was able, without hesitating, to give them their real name of Arctic foxes.

Sometimes I watch the Arctic foxes, trotting along with their short legs nearly a blur of motion, and often after I see the foxes I go to the cafeteria and get a cup of coffee, sit and talk with Janna, or Karin, or Jim.

Ayla watched the two male arctic foxes snarling and nipping at each other, fighting over the vixen, and smelled the strong foxy odor of males in rut even from the elevation of her ledge.

Herds of elk and reindeer, ground squirrels, geese, swans, lynx, lemmings, wolves, and arctic foxes, were all jammed into a broad peninsula, pinned in on three sides by the sea, and blocked on the landward side by thickening lines of cavalry.

Except for some rith their tightly curled wool coats thickened for winter, and aw horns, the only animals they saw were a few rock mar- quick, wily little creatures were adept at evading their many Whether it was wolves, arctic foxes, hawks, or golden ca-pitched whistle from a lookout sent them scurrying into and caves.

There are wallabies in Derbyshire, feral porcupines in Devon, beavers and raccoons, and probably some Arctic foxes.