A slumbering Arctic fox in winter will wrap its long, bushy tail around its body for added warmth. Its feet are covered in dense fur to insulate against the cold and provide traction on the ice.

Arctic foxes were almost hunted ... on which foxes feed – and allowing the red fox to encroach on its habitat. That's why rangers now provide food for the foxes in more than 250 feeding stations ...

RANGE: The Arctic fox has a circumpolar range and is found in the tundra ... including those in Scandinavia, where insufficient food sources in the 1980s and 1990s reduced fox numbers to an estimated ...