Nearly 60 years ago Russian researchers Trut and Dmitri Belyaev decided to
domesticate wild foxes to learn in detail how the journey from wild beast to household pet happens.
Not exact matches
DOMESTICATION IN ACTION How to Tame a
Fox tells the story of a long - running experiment to domesticate silver foxes (a wild silver fox is show
Fox tells the story of a long - running experiment to
domesticate silver
foxes (a
wild silver
fox is show
fox is shown).
The process of creating these tame
foxes mirrors the way dogs are thought to have been
domesticated from their
wild wolf ancestors.
In the
wild, only young wolves, coyotes, and
foxes bark, but when dogs were
domesticated, barking was one of the puppylike characteristics people liked and looked for when they were choosing which dogs to keep.
However, the average difference between dN / dS was only 0.0342 in these
domesticated /
wild comparisons [33], whereas island
foxes (0.40) have almost a fourfold greater dN / dS ratio than California mainland
foxes (0.10).