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How Do Foxes Become Domesticated?

Dimitri was doing a rigorous scientific experiment where he only selected for how tame the foxes were. He rescued 130 foxes from becoming big Russian hats, and brought them to his little sanctuary of domestication. By the third generation they started wagging their tails, and licking the hands of researchers. It turns out that domestication syndrome is what's going on here.

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