How Far Do Animals Travel?

Human beings know that wild animals tend to roam the Earth, but till now we didn’t have the requisite technology to figure out just how vast the distances these animals traverse. The frozen Arctic region offers sea ice that animals can cross often leaving one country for another. The Polar Research Institute has been keeping tabs on a few animals that they have been able to tag.

A young arctic fox set off from the Svalbard Archipelago in Norway last year and has been trekking across the sea ice to hit northern Nunavut in Canada this year. The journey took the little blue fox about 76 days and covered a distance of 2175 miles. That’s almost three thousand kilometers. The fox passed through Greenland on his trek and data shows that he moved quickly past areas covered in ice sheets where food was scarce.

The initial records of the feat had incited disbelief. Who could imagine that a tiny fox could be hardy enough to undertake such a long journey over one of the harshest climates known to man. This science project proves that while man may claim the apex position on the planet, he is still to discover what feats his other co-creatures on the planet can do.