Unnatural Selection in Action: Domestication

FFT

These are foxes:

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Apparently these are some of the results of a 45 year old Russian domestication project. They're so cute and I want one

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Trinity1 · Emperor of the World Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 3123

Not sure how selective breeding demonstrates anything here... care to clue me in?
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FFT · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject:

What do you think I'm trying to demonstrate?
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FFT · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject:

That's really about it. Everyone already knows that we got all of the modern varieties of dogs over the course of the last 17,000 years (or less, of course) from wild animals. Now people are doing it with foxes and in just 45 years they've got at least one distinct breed!

I'm not really trying to make a point with this, anyway. Here's a few more, the domestication of foxes apparently actually goes back to the 1800s.

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Trinity1 · Emperor of the World Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 3123

The bottom photo is absolutely priceless... Smile

My dad has a hybrid wolf. The thing is way too cool.
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theseldomscene · Banned Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 7817

we think it was a fox that ate my wife's shih tzu Very Happy

...i mean... Sad

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cool pics fft...that was great.... Very Happy