# Kutup tilkisi

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| **Korunma durumu** |
|  Asgari endişe altında (IUCN 2.3) |
| **Biyolojik sınıflandırma** |
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| Âlem: | Animalia  |
| Şube: | Chordata  |
| Alt şube: | Vertebrata  |
| İnfa şube: | Gnathostomata  |
| Sınıf: | Mammalia  |
| Takım: | Carnivora (Etçiller)  |
| Alt takım: | Caniformia (Köpeğimsiler)  |
| Familya: | Canidae (Köpekgiller)  |
| Oymak: | Vulpini (Asıl tilkiler)  |
| Cins: | Vulpes  |
| Tür: | V. lagopus  |

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| İkili adlandırma |
| Vulpes lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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| Sinonimler |
| *Alopex lagopus Canis lagopus* |

**Kutup tilkisi** (*Vulpes lagopus*), köpekgiller (Canidae) familyasına dahil Vulpes cinsi içinde yer alan, arktik bölgelere özgü küçük bir tilkidir.

Bu tilkinin kürkü kışın beyaz, yazın koyu kahverengidir. Kürkü avcılar için ilgi çekicidir. Uzun, tüylü ve kalın kuyruğunu şiddetli soğuklarda atkı ya da yorgan olarak kullanabilir. Koku alma yetisi çok gelişmiştir. Hızlı bir koşucu, iyi bir yüzücüdür, Kuzey Kutbu'nda kış başlangıcında, mart-nisan aylarında kutup tilkisi çiftleri gelecekteki yavruları için yuva hazırlarlar. Bu yuvaların çoğu kuşaktan kuşağa miras kalır. Bazılarının 300 yıl kadar kullanıldığı saptanmıştır. Kutup tilkisi köpekgiller arasında tek seferde en fazla yavru dünyaya getiren cinstir. Yavru sayısı ortalama 11'dir; bazen 22'ye çıktığı olur. Erkek tilki avlanıp yiyecekleri (küçük kemirgenler, kuşlar, bazı meyveler, leşler) yuvaya taşırken, dişi ise yavrularıyla ilgilenir. Yavrular aşağı yukarı 4 aylıkken yuvadan ayrılırlar. Bu süre içinde çift birlikte yaşarlar. Kutup tilkisinin insanlardan başka başlıca düşmanları vaşak ve kutup ayısıdır.

Vulpes lagopus'un mevsimlik kürkleri, yaz (üst), "mavi" (orta) ve kış (alt)
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Kum tilkisi |
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Afgan tilkisi |
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Çöl tilkisi |
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Rakun köpeği |
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### Aktcinsler

* Bering Adaları Kutup tilkisi, *Vulpes lagopus beringensis*
* İzlanda Kutup tilkisi, *Vulpes lagopus fuliginosus*
* Pribilof Adaları Kutup tilkisi, *Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis*
* Grönland kutup tilkisi, *Vulpes lagopus foragorapusis*

## Kaynakça

* Nowak, Ronald M. (2005). *Walker's Carnivores of the World*. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. ISBN 0-8018-8032-7.

 Familya: **Köpekgiller (Canidae)** [gizle]

Bu şablon nesli tükenmiş türleri içermemektedir.

 Oymak: **Asıl tilkiler (Vulpini)** [gizle]

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| *İri kulaklı tilki* | İri kulaklı tilki (*O. megalotis*) |
| *Urocyon* | Boz tilki (*U. cinereoargenteus*) • Ada boz tilkisi (*U. littoralis*) |
| *Vulpes* | Kızıl tilki (*V. vulpes*) • Bengal tilkisi (*V. bengalensis*) • Afgan tilkisi (*V. cana*) • Güney Afrika tilkisi (*V. chama*) • Karsak (*V. corsac*) • Tibet tilkisi (*V. ferrilata*) • Kutup tilkisi (*V. lagopus*) • Cüce tilki (*V. macrotis*) • Soluk tilki (*V. pallida*) • Kum tilkisi (*V. rueppelli*) • Ova tilkisi (*V. velox*) • Çöl tilkisi (*V. zerda*) |

 Oymak: **Asıl köpekler (Canini)** [gizle]

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| *Kısa kulaklı tilki* | Kısa kulaklı tilki (*A. microtis*) |
| *Canis* | Kurt (*C. lupus*) • Kızıl kurt (*C. rufus*) • Kır kurdu (*C. latrans*) • Altın çakal (*C. aureus*) • Kara sırtlı çakal (*C. mesomelas*) • Çizgili çakal (*C. adustus*) • Habeş kurdu (*C. simensis*) |
| *Yengeç yiyen tilki* | Yengeç yiyen tilki (*C. thous*) |
| *Yeleli kurt* | Yeleli kurt (*C. brachyurus*) |
| *Asya yaban köpeği* | Asya yaban köpeği (*C. alpinus*) |
| *Falkland tilkisi* | Falkland tilkisi (*D. australis*) |
| *Afrika yaban köpeği* | Afrika yaban köpeği (*L. pictus*) |
| *Rakun köpeği* | Rakun köpeği (*N. procyonoides*) |
| *Pseudalopex* | And tilkisi (*P. culpaeus*) • Arjantin gri tilkisi (*P. griseus*) • Darwin tilkisi (*P. fulvipes*) • Pampa tilkisi (*P. gymnocercus*) • Peru çöl tilkisi (*P. sechurae*) • Brezilya dövüş tilkisi (*P. vetulus*) |
| *Çalı köpeği* | Çalı köpeği (*S. venaticus*) |