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The catch is that friendly foxes don't look that foxy anymore; friendly zebras might lose their stripes at which point they kinda look like donkeys
by madflame991 8y ago
The catch is that friendly foxes don't look that foxy anymore; friendly zebras might lose their stripes at which point they kinda look like donkeys
- ChuckMcM 8y agoThat is entirely possible of course. But if that was the case, you could get a hell of a paper out of it by proving the genes responsible for coloration were tied to domestication.
- gwern 8y agoI'm afraid Darwin already published on how domestication syndrome involves pleiotropy in coloration changes, especially to piebaldness (which did indeed also happen to some degree in the domesticated foxes despite being selected solely based on behavior), so he has priority there by 2 centuries or so.
- x1798DE 8y agoThey look a lot like wild foxes to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox