That is so cool, I never knew that there was such a thing. I think that they are beautiful though. I love that smokey blue look, or at least that's what it looks like to me is smokey blue. Either way I love the pics White. I think I may be starting to change my favorite animal to a fox now instead of a wolf, not sure though.

Yeah, I just learned of this myself (all the more points for this forum for being educational). Foxes do have a lot of stuff about them that most people don't know, but since I know them, I know which is my favorite animal.

It's sad that blue foxes are less than one percent of the arctic fox population but they still are not protected by any hunting or trapping laws. You think such a rare thing should be protected.

Thery aren't protected?!?!?!?!?! Why not? That makes no sense, I mean they are rare, and aren't artic foxes endangered anyways? ...... I think they are anyways, in any case, they should still be procted, they are such a beautiful animal, very pretty.

That just reminded me of what one fox hunter said "what about cows, chickens, pigs?" something, some more bull crap and . . . "so ban fox hunting because they're cute; not until you worry about those other animals then you're just a hyprocrit."

That seems to be most human thoughts "not until you do this then you're a hyprocrit." Even back in the revolutionary war, the british goverment said that until america has a goverment, then they will continue to tax their goods. Typical.

Anyway, arctic fox's are not endangers; basically all the main speices of the foxes are not endangered because they are God's work and masterpeices of nature, their numbers are not effected. And to the best of my knowledge, since blue foxes are the same as arctic foxes, they are not protected.

I'll agree on that, you would think that something that rare would be protected, I mean they are so beautiful and they are different from normal arctic foxes, and since they are less than 1% of the arctic fox population then you would think that they would do something to protect something that is that rare.

only a species would be protected and the blues are the same species. That would be like protecting blue doe from hunts. A blue doe is rare like that, not blue in color but so named cuz the doe has antlers and basicaly a hermaphrodite so couldn't usualy breed anyway. But there's other examples like white black bears.

I knew the term blue fox because that's what the fur farms call their artics. A study done on taurine deficiency on foxes was done on reds and blues. And mentioned somewhere of them trying to cross blues and reds but it doesn't really work. So knew blue was arctic but didn't know it was a special type.

I wonder then if the fur farm blue is really the blue fox farmed for that trait and not just an artic. Probably like with the silver fox.

A fox being 'blue' sounds to me like a genetic deformity, similar to albinism, but that is just what I conclude from what is given on this page. I hadn't heard of them before.

Gentic deformity? Nah, foxes are just very unique in which they can be many different colors and just different. Who knows why they are different colors? They are just unique.

it's called a color mutation doesn't really make them mutants like people think of the term really just means a change of color from the norm.

and it's been studied just like color in dogs. People know what colors to breed to what to get what color if it's a dormant or rececive gean ect.

A list of articles on fox genetics

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and there's this one but there's fur pics the second half is foxes and mentions blues

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Really it's just a mutation a randome difference like a bird with a larger beak than normal then say there's a fire and only seeds can be found are hard the bird with the bigger beek will survie better being able to crack those seeds and pass it's geans on.

If global warming continues and there's less snow the blue foxes might be the ones to survive better.

It's called genetic diversity and mother nature's way of helping with species survival. but science calls it a mutation.