The Northern Lights
curl up small and tuck their tails over their noses , they maintain a steady temperature as they sleep .
The cleverness of their adaptive survival skills is part of the reason that foxes have a reputation for being sly and cunning . They ’ re really smart , curious and inventive . When they ’ re hungry , they ’ ll find food anywhere . They stick together in family groups , looking out for each other , keeping a wary watch for snowy owls and polar bears , golden eagles and wolverines .
The Northern Lights
The lands at the extreme north of the world have a polar day that lasts four months , when the Sun never sets , and a three-month-long polar night , when the Sun never rises . The darkness is often lit by a dance of coloured lights that flit across the sky . These are the Northern Lights , or the aurora borealis .
When the Arctic fox hunts lemmings in the winter , it listens very carefully to tiny Bursts of super-charged sunlight speed sounds coming from under the snow , into the Earth ’ s outer atmosphere , where the lemmings tunnel to stay deflected by our planet ’ s natural out of sight . When the fox is sure of its magnetic field . As the light is filtered quarry , it takes a courageous leap into towards the north and south poles , the air . With a flick of its tail , it plunges it lights up gases in the atmosphere , through the snow , sending showers of creating nitrogen red , oxygen green white flakes up to glitter in the sun . and other gaseous colours that dance about the Earth like ribbons .
In old northern traditions , many Arctic animals took their place in the stars , as In Finland the lights are known as constellations . The fox , small , pale and revontulet , which translates as ‘ fire fox ’. secretive , was overlooked – until the
It ’ s said that they are caused by a little nights of the lights came – then the great white fox who brushes its tail against sweep of the aurora , like a brush of a the sky , or flicks snow up into the giant , luminous tail against the sky , gave moonlight , causing the sky to glitter . the little fox a place in the heavens .
PUZZLE ALERT !
It ’ s nap time , and everyone is tired and emotional . Can you match the Arctic animal to its bed ?
Words : Annalie Seaman . Illustration : Kaley McKean
1 Sleeping pit 2 Den 3 Form 4 Burrow 5 Roost
A Arctic hare
B Lemming
C Arctic fox
D Polar bear E Snowy owl
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