foxes

Part of the tick's complicated lifecycle involves mice, and mice and vole populations explode in the absence of foxes.

We need an active deer hunt, reintroduction of wolves in places, and a program to encourage foxes.

For example, the tame minxes and foxes would just sit around and purr/drool, and that's pretty much all they did.

Urban foxes are well-known in the UK, and they have dens in people's gardens/yards, often without the owners having a clue.

I don't know about the minxes, but the foxes basically behave like domestic dogs, possibly with more energy.

Today elite foxes make up 70 to 80 percent of our experimentally selected population.

They won't hatch many chickens, but they're unlikely to get eaten by foxes, either.

Considering how few generations it took to breed tame foxes, I'm surprised no one has done it for raccoons.

This reminds me of a difference between cats and dogs (and foxes).

Does anyone know how many foxes they started with for the experiment?

The tame foxes (and especially minxes) seemed more mentally challenged than tame.

There are already lots of videos of these foxes on Youtube.

They already sell those as pets, as you can see by googling "Russian pet foxes".

If you have an interest in foxes I can recommend a couple of fox books you might like: "The Sprite, The Story of Red Fox".

I think these foxes are a lot like that - they love to hide in "dens" provided to them (plastic tubes), but I doubt they have the ability to build shelters or find food in the wild.

His papers are not so much "wouldn't it be cool if we could domesticate foxes in just a few generations", but speak much more to the fact that, as you select for behavioral traits, physical traits are sort of unintentionally selected.

Foxes in Class II let themselves be petted and handled but show no emotionally friendly response to experimenters.

Foxes will change their coats but not their ways.

Foxes in Class I are friendly toward experimenters, wagging their tails and whining.