A great deal of research has been conducted about the fox. That is why some of them have been successfully relocated to Australia. They are thriving in that environment just as predicted. They also do very well in captivity so that they can be further studied. The fox is a fascinating ani...
The Arctic fox’s fur changes colour with the seasons, providing it with year-round camouflage. In the summer its coat is a brown-grey colour. This hides the animal against the rocky ground. In the winter its coat changes to a white colour for when the ground is covered in snow. Under...
Arctic sea-ice extent has strongly decreased since the beginning of satellite observations in the late 1970s. While several drivers are known to be implicated, their respective contribution is not fully understood. Here, we apply the Liang-Kleeman inform
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Here are some central facts about Svalbard! Geography Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic, located approximately half way between mainland Norway and the North Pole, between 74° and 81° North. The archipelago is made up of islands, islets and reefs, with Spitsbergen as the ...
McPherron, S. P. (2006). What typology can tell us about Acheulian handaxe production. In N. Goren-Inbar & G. Sharon (Eds.),Axe age: Acheulian tool-making from quarry to discard(pp. 267–285). London: Equinox Publishing Ltd. ...
However, of the carnivores, only domestic dogs have been tested. Although rarely represented in the psychological literature, foxes are good candidates for metacognition given that they cache their food. Two experiments assessed metacognition in one male arctic fox ( Vulpes lagopus ) for the first ...
Here at Thornton Weather, we rely heavily on the NWS for the information we provide not only in terms of forecasts, but many of the features on our website. These cuts threaten all of that. More troubling is the storm on the horizon with rumors about a privatization of many of the serv...
One of Aesop’s most famous fables is the story about the fox that simply could not get hold of a tasty bunch of grapes and no matter how hard he tried, they remained out of reach. It seemed that the more unattainable they were, the more desirable they became. It could be argued tha...
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