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"Now are coming the foxes!"
Topic Started: Sep 14 2016, 04:21 AM (112 Views)
George K
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No, not the Festrunk Brothers, real foxes:

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Unlike dogs and cats, the different species of fox have not been domesticated.

Domestication only happens over a long period of time through selective breeding. Cats and dogs were domesticated by humans thousands of years ago to be pets and companions. Sheep, goats and other animals were domesticated for food.

But there may be more to it than that. People who have tried to simply tame individual foxes often speak of a stubborn wildness that is impossible to get rid of. This suggests that foxes harder to tame than other animals.

However, one extraordinary experiment has found a way to domesticate foxes. This one study could help us understand how our ancestors domesticated other animals, and indeed what domestication is.
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In the late 1950s, a Russian geneticist called Dmitry K. Belyaev attempted to create a tame fox population.
Through the work of a breeding programme at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics at Novosibirsk, in Russia, he sought to trace the evolutionary pathway of domesticated animals. His test subjects were silver-black foxes, a melanistic version of the red fox that had been bred in farms for the colour of their fur.

Belyaev died in 1985, but the project is still ongoing. It is now overseen by Lyudmila Trut, now in her 80s, who started out as Belyaev's intern.

The Russian fox farm was the first of its kind.

"There is archaeological data that people made individual attempts to domesticate the fox, but this process was not finished," says Anastasiya Kharlamova, one of Trut's research assistants. "Possibly the reason was that the cat was domesticated at a similar time, and supplanted the fox as a possible candidate to be domesticated."


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George K
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Mrs. George, when I told her about this story, said, "Why would you want that, when you can get the same thing with a dog - and cheaper?"

Yeah...
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Dog's are much better.
Edited by Luke's Dad, Sep 14 2016, 03:16 PM.
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Mikhailoh
Sep 14 2016, 03:15 PM
Tell Mrs. K I agree with her.
She's a smart lady, in spite of the fact that she married me.
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