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They didn't just breed tame ones, they also did the other half and bred aggressive / psychotic ones too.

• corndoge 10y ago
  Source please
  • SixSigma 10y ago
    The same BBC documentary
• sushid 10y ago
  That doesn't seem to be case from the article. It seems like they were not selected from the first generation of foxes to be domesticated, and for each subsequent generations, the non-friendly ones were simply sold as fox pelts.
  • smallnamespace 10y ago
    http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mans-new-best-friend-a-forgotten-russian-experiment-in-fox-domestication/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mans-new-best... "Belyaev then began breeding a line of foxes with the opposite behavioral traits, to be fearful and aggressive, using a similar method." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RypuiEOouZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RypuiEOouZ0