Out, intending to catch the polar bear migration, the explore cameras caught this sweet faced red fox, waking up from a nap in the wintry willows near Hudson Bay.

Did You Know?

• Red foxes, or vulpes vulpes, live around the world in many diverse habitats including forests, grasslands, mountains, and deserts.
• Red foxes are solitary hunters who feed on rodents, rabbits, birds, and other small game—but their diet can be as flexible as their home habitat. Foxes will eat fruit and vegetables, fish, frogs, and even worms.
• A fox uses its tail (or “brush”) as a warm cover in cold weather and as a signal flag to communicate with other foxes.

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Zen Den Friday

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Check out this Duck Zen Den as they fish as a family in the Arctic. 

Did You Know? 

“Sea ducks have great diving skills, they prefer animal foods to plant matter and feed more on molluscs than do the other waterfowl. They typically eat large invertebrates, including clams, mussels, shrimp, snails and small crabs, when on their wintering grounds and some eat shellfish, fish eggs or fish. Sea ducks migrate longer distances for wintering grounds than many freshwater ducks.” (Read more at Arctic Ocean Diversity.) 

Feeling glacial without your coffee? Come wake up slowly this sleepy Sunday morning, this time with the Arctic Still Story. Drift through with breathtaking photos and the sounds of the North Pole. 

Did you know? 

• The north and south poles represent the top and bottom ends of the Earth’s axis - around which it rotates.
• The lines of longitude that establish our time zones all converge at the pole. In that area they are too close together to be practical as time zones, so Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used for local time.
• Parts of the ocean trench under the Arctic Ocean are up to 3 miles / 4.8 km deep.

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