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Taming Of The Beast
Hugh Bollinger
/ Categories: Archive Selection, Animals, mammals, Environmental, science, Media, video, Travel

Taming Of The Beast

Siberian grey foxes (credit: Wikipedia)

Anyone curious on how a wild creature could be domesticated should be interested in 70 years of breeding with Siberian foxes in Russia. Russian researchers in genetics and animal behavior used Siberian grey foxes, a color mutation of the red fox, and bred for Behavioral characteristics in foxes to be calm around people. With further generations of breeding, selection, and patience they created a domesticated animal. A 1977 Soviet-era film, made for the International Congress of Genetics held in Moscow, showed their results.

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