Domesticated animals are known to share a ... behaviors never seen in wild foxes. Foxes bred through generations to be as human-friendly as dogs get a boost from Lyudmila Trut (center) and other ...

Trut got to work by first touring remote fur farms, gathering up 130 of the most docile foxes she could find. She sorted them into three classes—a spectrum of wild to tame—based on their ...

Apaper published yesterday (December 3) in Trends in Ecology and Evolution criticizes a famous experiment on fox taming and casts doubt on domestication syndrome, the idea that a variety of physical ...