Belyaev Experiment: Docile Foxes
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Actually thats not natural taming at all, its selective breeding. They are that tame from birth
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I will deal with it by being amused by your misery and fruitless wrath at an interesting experiment. Is that sufficient? I think that's sufficient.
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I want this video on my 735 unit.
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Your video is a favorite on Paraguay
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That's how humans tamed dogs and cat, this is simply speeding up the process of genetically taming a fox, it's really no different than what happens in nature.
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Here's an interesting thought. Human society is spreading accross the world, we are not going to stop no matter how many speices we endanger. Domesticated animals have the best chance of survival, and happiness.
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lol this can be the start of something amazing!
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these are not half dog, half fox as people have said. they are all fox. there was a very good article about them in natgeo
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it looks and acts like a grey version of a welsh corgie mutt that i had. super annoyingly friendly too. i think people proved this could be bred into foxes a looooong time ago. they certainly spent a lot of time reinventing the wheel.
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read about this on nat geo
really opens up possibilities to domesticating other species
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That is one excited fox... X3
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this was featured in dogs decoded, a nova film
can u also shorten the adrenal levels of a fox if you were to spay it?
klucker 3 years ago 3
It's difficult for me to say. The animals in this video have a genetic basis for producing less adrenaline. By contrast, using spaying or neutering is a mechanical process. I also think that the types of hormones affected are different.
For example, neutering removes about 90% of the body's ability to make testosterone. Spaying may remove the body's ability to make estrogen. The absence of either of these hormones will alter a fox's behavior, but not quite in the same way.
ZacharyB 3 years ago