Thursday, December 17, 2009
Tired of Your Dog? Get a Fox!
This is a remarkable three minute film! If you don't know about this, watch it.
In short, Russian scientists did an experiment wherein wild foxes were bred for tameness. Within 10 generations, the Russians found they had...dogs? And if not dogs, then what? If you have any interest in how dogs came to be, you'll learn a lot from this excerpt from "Nova."
In short, Russian scientists did an experiment wherein wild foxes were bred for tameness. Within 10 generations, the Russians found they had...dogs? And if not dogs, then what? If you have any interest in how dogs came to be, you'll learn a lot from this excerpt from "Nova."
Labels:
dog,
domestication,
fox,
Russia
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2 comments:
I want one!
Wow, those are very cute critters. I'd love to meet one!
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