We met the world’s first domesticated foxes

Should we be domesticating wild animals?

i love the desire to grow closer to animals… but i sometimes think that us humans should be evolving back so we can get closer. i’m not against domestication, however, i do think nature needs to be nature in many places at the end of the day

Is there any way I could get one?

The next step is to extend the criteria for being allowed to breed: Don't let the foxes in to indoor "Scheiße Sport" breed!

How to accustom Russians to civilization? They were very aggressive and slowed down development in the Middle Ages...
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Won’t be truly pet-capable until we can train ‘em to either wait to go out to pee, or pee in a litterbox.

In other words… Foxes are going to be a normal pet in a near future?

Let me use a quote from one of the Batman movies. “It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature”.

You talk about domestication syndrome after the video. No thought of that during the video

Pitbull hates said that owning pack a domestic wild dogs like(Foxes, Cayotes, Jackel, Hyena, Dingos.and Wolf,) is like owning a danger and aggressive Pitbull.

Foxes are more like a cross between a cat and a ferret. They smell, they destroy everything, they need vast amounts of space and pee and poo everywhere. Leave wild animals in the wild

What a load of rubbish I know people in the uk that have had foxes as pets for over 20 years

for sure this one is not first

Dogs didn't evolve from wolves. It's the other way around.

Foxes meh…. I wan’t a real life teddy bear! 🧸

i love foxes so gosh darn much!

With human expansion, population grown and encroachment onto lands, a sort of domestication happens. We are living side by side anyway. I bumped into a beautiful grey and black fox pup (huge tail) in my driveway the other night. It was about 10 feet from me, it was stopped looking at me, it sniffed the air and just walked off. Maybe a 3-5 second encounter. Very unexpected Special moment!

First domesticated fox? We've a time traveller on our hands!

Besides that cheeky comment, the difference between domesticated and tame is blurry in this story.

fox being mischievous ??? who woulda thunk.

Man you have weird looking cat

Is it really possible to domesticate foxes like dogs? We've domesticated cats but their behavior is different from that of dogs.
Maybe that's just how foxes are behavior wise, they just can't/won't act like dogs.
Food for thought

The fact that these foxes were selectively bred only for “domestic behavior” genes does not mean that those are the only genes that changed over the course of a century. Being in captivity for that many generations would undoubtedly have numerous effects on the expression of other traits that would not have led to success in the wild.

Now everyone can use foxes as pets

The fact i cant keep them as a muslim.

Bullshxxt title

Eventually if it ever becomes hyper-social we should stop calling them foxes and call them funny looking dogs.

I have seen MANY domesticated foxes, for MANY years. These are NOT NEARLY the FIRST DOMESTICATED FOXES.
Still, this videos does indeed broach the history of this phenomanon.

Fun fact. Some native american tribes in the past have trained foxes to bond with people by feeding then and they kept them around the encampment as what I guess would be called a "pet"

No VS, you guys aren't "the first to domesticate a fox". All you have is a fox as a house pet. It's wild instincts are things you have to deal with everyday and night while off camera. Don't kid yourself.

^w^ adorable!

Those poor fox..stuck in a cages with wires for the ground. Ugh so sad

Give me a domesticated bear. Now.

We finally know what the fox says, it speaks russian

Can we make pet foxes a thing now

i need fox

soviets in films and games hitman
soviets irl dog foxes

Copper, you're my best friend.

And you're mine too, Todd

The domestic animals are not domestic because they are not being agressive and fearful over men. Some of them are, some of them are not. But they are docile. And that a wild animal will never be.

Did they breed the stink out of these domesticated foxes? Thats one thing that would make or break

Oh for Fox sakes... LOL this is pretty cool.

I have a dream of wolf sized fox as pet

Maybe too big of a dream but still one of my biggest one

Really interesting. Thank you🦊😊.

Isn't that just a dog?

Probably don’t want to own a Fox and raise chickens, too….

I think Russians must cuntinue selecting foxes for the next one thousand years to have a chance to replace man's best friend

i would love to be tested.

i liek foxes

I wonder if similar experiments could be performed on zebras, rhinos, ravens, elephants....kangaroos?

I've started domesticating crocodiles, the results so far are promising, but It's hard to write it all down with one arm