Joker, a silver fox at Wolf Park in Indiana. A decades-long experiment on taming silver foxes informed a key theory about animal domestication that is now being called into question. (Monty Sloan ...

They also love digging and need more space than other breeds. Silver foxes, a domesticated red fox variety bred in Russia, have reduced urine odor and better temperaments.

Many domesticated animals have curly tails, floppy ears, mottled coats and child-like faces. A 60-year-long experiment on Siberian foxes helps explain why.

Foxes bred for tameness also developed floppy ears and curly tails, known as “domestication syndrome.” But what if the story isn’t what it seems?

As famously laid out by Russian zoologist Dmitry Belyayev in the 1960s and 1970s during his "silver fox experiments," domestication syndrome posits that there are certain common physical traits ...

Laughter Domesticated Foxes Laugh With You (and Without You) Laughter emerges after six decades of domestication in silver foxes. Posted October 8, 2018 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader ...

In 1959, the Soviet zoologist Dmitry Belyaev began selectively breeding silver foxes. Those least afraid of people were chosen to reproduce. His goal was to simulate the process that turned fierce … ...