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This tantalizing notion, now known as domestication syndrome ... Soviet zoologist Dmitry Belyaev began selectively breeding silver foxes. Those least afraid of people were chosen to reproduce.

For the last 60 years, scientists in Siberia have bred silver foxes to be increasingly tame, with the goal of revealing the evolutionary and genetic underpinnings of domestication. This research ...

We only have the native reds and grays, so the first indication that he was a captive-bred fox is obviously his coloring." ...

A tame fox. Institute of Cytology and Genetics The foxes that were mainly bred then were silver foxes imported from Canada in the 1920s. They behaved very aggressively: They would attack humans ...

While there's more research needed, the study has helped prove that selective domestication of wild animals can be done. Like the red fox, the silver fox is a solitary animal. They prefer to ...

Over the past six decades, the work that Trut and her colleagues have done on the silver fox, a variant of the red fox, has become the gold standard for understanding the process of domestication.

Hidden away on this overgrown property, flanked by birch forests and barred by a rusty metal gate, he and several hundred of his relatives are the only population of domesticated silver foxes in ...

But Anna Kukekova, an animal geneticist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who studies tame and aggressive silver foxes, says she sees a flaw: The physical and behavioral traits of ...