Russian foxes bred for tameness may not be the domestication story we thought
A new study challenges the friendly foxes’ history and the validity of ‘domestication syndrome’
This image shows a dark-furred, silver fox similar to the variety bred for tameness in a famous, long-running experiment in Russia.
Monty Sloan
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.