From foxes to reindeer, some of the world’s most exotic animals have surprisingly been domesticated. Discover the fascinating ...

(Trace) Today, domesticated foxes, they're quite tame; they approach humans and they allow themselves to be held and even pet. (David) One of our foxes, she's kind of a bougie fox.

Key points For the last sixty-one years, a team of dedicated Russian geneticists have been breeding the friendliest foxes to study the process of domestication. In the late 1970s/early 1980s, the ...

Gogoleva began her work at the experimental fox farm in the summer of 2005. She began by cataloging the different sounds made by the domesticated, aggressive, and control foxes. It was immediately ...

What if foxes could be trained and domesticated, much the way dogs were domesticated thousands of years ago? A nearly 50-year experiment in Russia is aiming at just that.

Lyudmila Trut kept the study going on a shoestring after fall of the Soviet Union and the late-1990s collapse of the rouble, but by 1999 only 100 tame females and 30 tame males were left alive.

Genetic patterns of world’s farmed, domesticated foxes revealed via historical deep-dive Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences ...