Russian Domestication Project on Foxes
NewsFor 45 years the domestication of foxes has been underway in Russia. An example of unnatural selection?
Excerpt: February 8, 2005—Young foxes, or kits, scamper in a cage in Siberia, Russia, where they are part of a 45-year research project to domesticate foxes. Each generation has been selectively bred for tameness—fearlessness and nonaggression toward humans. By now the foxes in the project behave like pet dogs, barking and wagging their tails at humans.
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