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Fox Domestication
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The beginning
The project has started. The hope was to see if his method of domestication would work. Most people doubted him but otherws had faith. -
Checking of the Hypothesis
They were starting to check if it tamability. Also seeing if crossbreeding between wild foxes and domesticated foxes. They also switched embryosand fostered newborns to see what would happen. -
Domestication
Ten generations have been bred and have been looked at as similar to dogs. The method worked and is proven. These foxes are scientific marvels. -
The death of a founder
Dmitry K. Belyaev, the creator of the experiment passed away. He was born in july 17 1917. He thought that domestication wasn't in the body it was in its tamability. -
The results they've been looking for
The team involved in the project has found their results after forty years and 45000 foxes later. The way they domesticated them is probably how early animals were domesticated. For the results show that the foxes coats have changed and sizes vary similar to other domesticated kinds of animals.
