Assertion: arctic fox's food | /r/HasProperty | scarce
Facets:
value: during winter
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the arctic
type: LOCATION
value: particularly
type: DEGREE
value: in such a cold environment
type: LOCATION
value: really
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: During the winter, this works as greater insulation and a source of energy when food is scarce.
text: However, when food is scarcer, the adults probably range much further.
text: In summer months when food is scarce they have been known to eat berries, and will store food in their dens to keep for later.
text: When food is scarce, Arctic foxes exhibit great resourcefulness by following polar bears and eating scraps of food left behind by the bigger animals!
text: When food is scarce, polar bears may also prey on Arctic foxes.
text: This provides greater insulation during the winter and a source of energy when food is scarce .
text: When lemmings are abundant, the white fox can give birth to 18 pups, but they often do not reproduce when food is scarce.
text: White arctic foxes may not reproduce when food is scarce, yet can have as many as 25 pups in a litter when prey is abundant.
text: When prey and food is scarce during winter, they feed on the leftovers of the polar bear, the Arctic’s primary predator.
text: This provides greater insulation during the winter and a source of energy when food is scarce.
text: When lemmings are abundant, the white fox can give birth to 18 pups, but they often do not reproduce when food is scarce.
text: They also eat berries and seaweed when food is scarce.
text: In their home in the arctic tundra, food can be scarce.
text: Because food is so scarce, it eats anything it can find including small rodents, lemmings, eggs of other birds and fish.
text: Not only does this cool trick allow them to withstand frigid temperatures, but it also enables them to survive longer without food — a key tool when food is scarce in the dead of winter.
text: Food can be scarce in the Arctic, but the hares survive by eating woody plants, mosses, and lichens which they may dig through the snow to find in winter.
text: Implantation won't take place if food is scarce, the young (kits - typically 3) are born between late February and April.
text: Fewer pups are successfully reared to maturity when food is scarce.
text: In such a cold environment, food can be scarce.
text: With fur on the bottom of their feet (vulpes lagopus means "hair-footed fox"), reserves of fat, the ability to slow their metabolism when food is scarce, and a thick coat that changes from white to brown or gray with the season, Arctic Foxes are especially adapted to the tundra.
text: If food is really scarce, it eats the feces of other animals.
text: This provides greater insulation during the winter and a source of energy when food is scarce.
text: In winter, when food is scarce, Arctic foxes sometimes eat food left over by polar bears.
text: However, the majority of the time, the diet of arctic foxes is composed mainly of meat and proteins – although fruits and other invertebrate animals are eaten occasionally, but more so when their main food is scarce.
text: During extreme times when food is scarce, they eat the carcasses of reindeer and other leftover carcasses, left behind by other animals like polar bears.
text: During winter, arctic foxes mostly eat lemmings, since lemmings are generally in plentifully supply, along with eggs left by other animals, carrions of animals killed by winter, ringed seal pups and if food is particularly scarce, they’ll eat feces.
text: Food can be scarce in the Arctic, but the hares survive by eating woody plants, mosses, and lichens which they may dig through the snow to find in winter.