Belyaev Experiment: Docile Foxes

Wonder what creationist have things to say about this huh?

what a beautiful thing, the change we can instill in something with a little manipulation at the smallest level.

Year old, but dogs are a species, as are wolves, and they both belong to Canidae, the genus. Wolves are Canis Lupus and dogs, ironically, are Canis Lupus Familiaris. The domesticated dog originated as a domesticated form of the wolf, and then through speciation became many different breeds of domesticated (familiaris) dog.

Ten months old, but the answer is the wild in general, predators, the danger, all of that which is not present in a domesticated environment. Adrenal genes increased to aid the animal in fight or flight. You can't survive in the wild, or it's unlikely, as a tame and physically gentle animal. Even the most adorable bunny is ruthless in its survival.

its interesting how the fox seems to wag its tail as a dog would when the handaler approaches.

where do you live? you can get these Belyaev fox's in Russia, but i recently learned there are many breeders in the USA that breed foxes for tameness like the Belyaev foxes

My dog was in the room when I played the companion video of aggressive foxes,yet he showed no reaction. When he saw THIS video,he stood up and barked at the screen.

I think it's an amazing start to a new breed of Dog?Fox?Dox?Fog?

Isn't this how dogs started....Who wouldn't like one of these cuddly lil guys?

You CAN find silver fox breeders in the united states. The issue is they aren't the "tame" russian kind, they're just red foxes with the silver color morph (just like a black jaguar is still very much a jaguar, etc)
The population of domestic foxes are in russia, dotted through europe and even less in america (I think we have a small nonpet (yet) program run by scientists here) The russian breeders are reluctant to give to americans because of the common "throw away" mentality towards pets here