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
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