Domesticated foxes of Novosibirsk | A decades long scientific experiment of Russia | World News

Whenever we think of domesticating animals what comes first in our mind is dogs & cats, or may be rabbit or parrot. But in Russia's Novosibirsk foxes are man's new furry friends. Watch the report to know more.
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[@TheCoolLasse]

The best part of this video was the giant banners of text covering the foxes in every scene

[@lukeoldfield7940]

lol..

[@ralphcantrell3214]

Ya, that crap pizzes me off too! KZbinrs are getting worse and worse about it too.

[@marinayuri550]

Did she give up halfway through Novosibirsk? 😂

[@kittydollsxo189]

I mean to be fair dogs also kill birds , rats , squirrels. Tho u can train them not to touch them , but it’s really hard for them to resist to catch prey.

[@cymjeff92]

My dog will run and hide at the sight of a squirrel, no training required

[@pipercharms7374]

I mean not all of them, depends on what breed.

[@Minotaur-ey2lg]

@@pipercharms7374Retrievers, for example, have a very strong retrieval instinct (go figure), but generally are ambivalent to actually killing things. Part if the reason they’re generally good with small children.

[@randompost4180]

@@Minotaur-ey2lg I still call foxes dog’s. I mean A chihuahua isn’t a husky but they are both still dog’s. A wolf and a coyote a jackal, raccoon dog,maned wolf,etc have differences but are still dogs.

[@AshleyWilliams-xq7lj]

My sighthound acts more like a domestic fox than a golden retriever 😂

[@u.g.3298]

So those are literally cat software running on dog hardware.

[@OMalleyTheMaggot]

I mean if a live mouse or bird were let out for my dog she'd catch it and eat it with pleasure too, idk if your ability to remove their most basic and behavior is what determines them being domesticated

[@calposa4447]

i supposed the difference is that some (not all) dogs can be trained to not do that? i think itd be pretty hard to do that with the 'domesticated' foxes we have right now, though that might just be a temperament issue

[@nerysghemor5781]

Cats too, for the most part, still want to chase and eat prey, and in fact are encouraged to do it by their owners sometimes.

[@davidjackson9680]

@@nerysghemor5781 yeah no owner is gonna complain if the cats kills the mice in there garden or rats in the house

[@bradowen8862]

Yeah, but most dogs don't catch mouse or eat birds. I have 4 dogs and only one of them catch birds and eat

[@scootermom1791]

That's what I was thinking, too. Does that mean cats are not domesticated either?

[@oldkingcrow777]

"But in Russia's Novorobssst..... here are...." I love that she remained so cool and didn't address it at all. Both impressive and hilarious

[@MolGaeilge]

What can be said, even Russians struggle with Russian names

[@CobbleChups]

I kinda feel sorry for the news lady struggling to pronounce Novosibirsk lol

[@RealNameNeverUsed]

Lmao she didn’t even try and skip unapologetically

[@cienfuegos8155]

But in Russia in Novorisbssbs..... here's our report.

[@RonaldMcPaul]

Fox is not a type of wolf. Both are canines in family Canidae.

[@claywagner2019]

Douche

[@josin2778]

bag

[@Racc_Oon]

gy pants

[@sachemofboston3649]

No shit

[@rdd2s403]

Huh, i didn’t know foxes were related to dogs

[@deep40]

What's next domesticated bear of Russia 😅😅

[@purebloodline]

Putin has it

[@topcommentor1655]

In mother Russia, bears domesticate humans😂

[@doubleyousee72]

YOUD BE SUPRISED 😂😂😂 there are domesticated bears in the u.s.

[@Rihardololz]

looks like you are light years behind comrade.

[@thegreygoblin5165]

I'm honestly surprised there's not a domestic species of bear. Black Bears and Sun Bears are surprisingly calm and unaggressive so that I would imagine that those animals could be the basis for a domestic bear

[@pacificprospector]

The researcher, Dmitry Belyayev, gave us valuable and brilliant research into animal genetics and behaviours.

[@candifemale5118]

So basically: Foxes are cats in dogs bodies.

[@FoxPerfect]

I have a pet Grey Fox. She is litter trained and lives in my house. Never in a cage.

[@turdfurgusson]

They did this just to find out what the fox says.

[@wildfire3986]

Being the next thing from a cat to a fox that acts like a cat

[@shrvani]

I want a fox...

[@shrvani]

@Muhammad molan - haffeez😳🤣

[@user-ik1fm2dg4c]

But keeping a fox is not easy and it's a quite a challenge to keep a wild fox

[@OMalleyTheMaggot]

@@user-ik1fm2dg4c these aren't wild foxes tho. These Russian bred foxes aren't actually TERRIBLY difficult to care for. The most difficult step is setting up some kind of fenced outdoor space for them. So yeah the only really difficult requirements are -have a decently sized backyard -be able to afford chain link fence -dont be stupid and make sure you know the important dietary needs and other small but essential steps you would take for any pet that isn't your basic cat/dog/goldfish The real problem is that the kits themselves are super expensive. After all there is only one source of them in the world.

[@user-ik1fm2dg4c]

@@OMalleyTheMaggot foxes are different from dogs and cats they are difficult to keep them, they might destroyed and messed the house or they will poop and peeing anywhere, why are you comment this to me, even domesticated ones are even difficult too

[@enriktigasna]

@@OMalleyTheMaggot They are expensive to feed aswell though, since they weren't selected to eat starch and cooked food like humans made dogs you need raw meat every day

[@grandslapper]

Only poblem with this video is that you can't actually see the fox half the time. Too many banners in the way.

[@bradleyboyer9979]

She's a fox. And the animals are cool too.

[@animalblundetto8440]

0:07 “But in Russia’s Navarrosbbss 👁️👄👁️ ”

[@Sandipan_Naskar]

You should hear their smiling

[@electrikoptik]

How do you hear a smile?

[@rebeccaanderson5626]

@@electrikoptik It is literally like a human being and it sounds like heheheheheeh

[@AshleyWilliams-xq7lj]

My sighthound acts more like a domestic fox than a golden retriever 😂. She would happily eat squirrels, walks along the back of the couch, and doesn't understand "no." I train by reinforcing good behavior. She only behaves if I'm watching.

[@comfortme]

sounds like my cat lol

[@ivanovsamuraj3095]

PRIVIET.

[@ryanhenderson8908]

They are not nearly as good looking as wild foxes.

[@tracymartel10]

My cat would eat a mouse or bird as well.

[@DerSingh0329]

Please don’t give English voice to Russians but English subtitles.... Russian sounds cool 😎

[@Annie-qe2uu]

This has the same vibes of weaboos complaining about dubs nos offense

[@DerSingh0329]

@@Annie-qe2uu Na buddy…. Just liking their accents and all

[@ella-jadeobrien7657]

Might be for blind people

[@muffinman8744]

What if the person's only listening and doesn't speak Russian?

[@Drocks0]

The guy/lady talking sounds Indian to me honestly Edit: Wion news is actually an Indian news network so makes sense.

[@user-hc4dz9nh9r]

My dog catches chickens like the fox

[@claudiablanco13]

In Russia at novorosibduaha (nevermind)

[@W0lf.fac3]

FOXES ARE MY FAVE ANIMAL AND IM PART RUSSIAN :0

[@VictorGarcia-ut4jv]

was she wearing leg warmers?

[@newenergyexperience434]

Ever wonder who's voice that is? I mean even ever though they are translations it's still a different person making the accent.

[@waverider8549]

It's an Indian person speaking on the Indian news channel

[@SCDarkZide]

Robert Sapolsky brought me here. Kon-kon, very cute!

[@josephzielinski8817]

Furry canines colorfully.🦊🐺

[@SmoothGummi]

Elizabeth Hargrave and Kickstarter brought me here from the future.

[@kexcz8276]

DID I SEE ŠKODA ADD THERE? LOL

[@destroyedsoul1791]

In Soviet Russia, the 🦊 is the new 🐕.

[@Sumitchand.official]

Jai Shree Ram.

[@amphibianoverlord3411]

He is so freakin cute omg 😱 please end the war so I can get one and afford a plane ticket !!!!

[@staaarik]

I'm sure you understand that this war is only profitable to U.S.. So as long American government makes money out of this conflict the war will never end.

[@ironsword7]

How long did it take to domesticate dogs? I'd imagine more than a mere 50 years. Breed them, choose the offspring with the best temperament towards humans and allow them to continue breeding. Rinse and repeat....

[@Diego-fd3we]

Imagine this but with bears 😂

[@hemasingh8033]

Are fox dangerous to keep at home ? Just asking , They are cute tho❤️

[@destroyedsoul1791]

It might be dangerous for small animals like cats,rabbits,chickens etc.

[@cc32834]

Also it would prob take an effort to potty train them

[@FuneFox]

since these foxes are semi-domesticated they are no more dangerous to you or other pets than getting a big breed of domestic cat

[@maddlybezerk]

they can't be potty trained

[@Zynet_Eseled]

@@FuneFox true. Just gotta try and get the laws in places adjusted

[@jayro792]

Move the messages and headings out the way!

[@bodhithespoodergen]

There are three things that I want from Russia one a lada Two a ak74 and a thousand rounds of 5.45 And three one of these foxes

[@blackwater7183]

They need to release breeding pairs to the public so we can finally own one cheaper.

[@Pibola64]

I think that's one of the goals of the experiment, but right now they're more meant for studying and examining rather than commercial reasons. Although they're pretty domesticated by the looks of it, I'd personally give some more time for them to be domesticated until they have enough for the public market.

[@blackwater7183]

@@Pibola64 I think they just want to monopolize the market tbh. Lol. There's none like their foxes.

[@marymc]

The bloody bar at the bottom covering the fox images most of the time...🤬

[@LazyDev27]

Wait, did he say he's giving the foxes oxy to be friendlier?

[@RivkahSong]

Oxytocin is a hormone released in the brain. Its function is primarily to do with reproduction (it will induce labor, promote lactation, help in sperm production, etc). As part of it's roll in procreation it also affects social behavior and emotions (because strong family units give a better chance for survival) such as helping induce arousal, social recognition, trust, and feelings of love and affection of all kinds (romantic, platonic, familial, etc). Scientists have found that petting domesticated animals like dogs and cats releases oxytocin in both the animal and the human, leading to both feeling happy, loving, and affectionate towards each other and forming social bonds. They've noticed the same thing beginning to happen in the foxes after several generations of domestication.

[@juancarlosbuenaventura5782]

@@RivkahSong Very good response.

[@RivkahSong]

@@juancarlosbuenaventura5782 Thank you!

[@johnr797]

Oxytocin not oxycontin lol

[@adrianaslund8605]

@@RivkahSong I read in a book by neurologist Patricia Churchland that oxytocin actually increases hostility to people outside of your own group in a group/team based contest study. That might be a side effect of increased identification with your own group. So paradoxically it might increase racism. It makes abit of sense since prejudiced and nationalistic people tend to be very sentimental.

[@sins905]

I wondered how many cullings they do to domesticated this foxes.

[@vilxxblack2472]

They can always make more

[@9razzler9]

i want a pet fox lol

[@alexiasd.3980]

Big hint of domestication, understands commands like come, or sit. Then if they can be potty trained 😂. Honestly most “pets” aren’t rlly domesticated. Like cats, some farm animals.

[@cookiekay9580]

Yeah at first I thought this was cool... until I seen there set up. Way to small for containment. They have to force themselves to enact and engage so that they can get a since of freedom like the hand picked ones on a leash.

[@Bruh4.]

It’s a scientific experiment, yknow for us to learn stuff, if we just let them run wild they would just be normal foxes and harder to research

[@Jensambrosia]

These foxes aren't being treated like pet dogs. Who keeps dozens of dogs in cages? Breeders do and people who breed them for meat or fur. It's no wonder they're not very tame.

[@ayushmansingh261]

Naruto have kurma

[@duraeroohoo853]

To me foxes dingos wolves are still a dog species no matter how wild they are

[@peterstoric6560]

They are all dogs, just not the species of domesticated dog.

[@yinchuun]

Foxes and wolves are different species and they can't interbreed

[@user-vm9xz4kv9z]

"Dog" refers to any member of the canine family, a demostic dog is called a "hound"

[@yinchuun]

Wrong, we do not call all canine as dog. We call wolves as wolves, we call fox as fox and we don't even call hound as dog.

[@user-vm9xz4kv9z]

@@yinchuun Who's "we"?

[@kyngpapi]

Wouldn’t this attract predators

[@waverider8549]

Plombir is a kind of ice cream in Russian

[@youneszreika]

WHATEVER YOU DO DONT TEACH THEM TO READ AND WRITE

[@Cyclonixs]

VULPES FAMILLIARIS

[@RickSuaz]

Not a dog.... well a canine just a different breed.

[@sirdocmad4473]

all this my dog do , and i am 99.99% sure my dog come from fox not wolf !

[@KentPetersonmoney]

Now let's see if we can domesticate a tiger. imagine if tigers only attacked on command. they would be good for the police force or the milltary.

[@alumana0052]

Can we do this to hippopotamus?

[@camilaribeiras6311]

Foxes aren't wolves, who tf taught you that? Wolves and Foxes are NOT the same, although they do belong to the CANIDAE family.

[@neilehlers9064]

It is experiment to mimic the selective breeding done to wolves that resulted in dogs. But rather than using wolves foxes were used. The sentence was just poorly worded.

[@someguyyouknow6420]

Yo can we do these to tigers???

[@someguyyouknow6420]

@luciano andreola so there is a chance?

[@someguyyouknow6420]

@luciano andreola then we need to do it!

[@jaydem3624]

Can we’ do more experiments

[@haroldinho9930]

@Salem Z Isn’t domestication good?

[@haroldinho9930]

@Salem Z as long as the pet is given the love and attention it deserves, then I believe domestication is ok. Unless it’s an animal that shouldn’t be domesticated because it’s endangered/isn’t compatible with humans for example, a deer.

[@vields2352]

To be fair my cat will happily catch a bird or mouse if you let one out for it and my dog is a Boston terrier which were bred for rat catching & she has caught a mouse & snapped its neck in 1 second before much to the horror of my kids. My point, even our domesticated animals retain their predatory instincts. Hell some dogs attack and even kill people.

[@kitfurr_rescue785]

are foxes becoming common pets? :(

[@Astro4Knowledge]

Its for the better tbh,deforestation is really killing foxes

[@tranderrick]

my dog and cat destroy the mice where im at. They love that shit.

[@joeylawell3590]

I don’t like how they’re all in cages though

[@joeylawell3590]

Why can’t we just own them and take cat/fox videos

[@IronSwordRBLX]

Ukraine

[@gangwaygamer8831]

In Soviet Russia, KZbin watches YOU.

[@Latenivenatrix_Mcmasterae]

Be fair, dogs have killed random small birds, lizards, and rodents before I know my dogs have and cats have been responsible for the extinctions of multiple species so really it all relies on the person who gets them, but given that I don’t think anyone would let their fox free roam the neighborhood like they would a cat but still there’s not much of a difference, yeah a pet fox would kill smth but that was guaranteed to happen anyway

[@comfortme]

not really the same thing though. both cats and dogs battle with the demands of their owners. i can see my cat understands me when i say no, and that may make her hesitate or stop doing something she knows i don’t want her doing. she will even run away, because she doesn’t want to be scooped up. she recognizes commands but cats being cats usually don’t listen. a dog may give you guilty eyes, but some lose control and give into instinct (like hounds). in fact depending on the dog breed; they have different prey drive. a herding dog is bred to be intense but not cause injury, they have the instinct to chase. a hunting dog has the instinct to chase, bite, or even kill. a retriever will chase n bite dead poultry and bring it back to the owner. n of course, dogs who were bred not with purpose but companionship will have varying behavior and instinct depending on who they were bred with. it will be random. in the end, most cats/dogs still know what you want them to do. i think the difference is foxes are completely consumed by instinct and it is predictable to behave as such. for a dog, you expect as much as you know of them. it varies.

[@silvialogan9226]

I would not keep foxes as pets even if they might be pretty in appearance. They are not dogs. Their behavior is not going to be stable and they could be acting very strangely.

[@Abhishek-sr2pu]

Yeah cats, ferrets, parrots, rabbits, etc are strange, they don't behave like dogs. They aren't stable, therefore we shouldn't keep cats, ferrets, parrots, rabbits, etc.

[@cazadorconescopeta]

@@Abhishek-sr2pu you are wrong I have a Cat and id very stable

[@chuckthetrooper]

These foxes can be trained, video shows them following directions. Other domesticated animals are very hard to be trained like cats and rabbits, some are very easy like dogs. A fox that has been raised by humans and properly trained should be very stable. It just depends how smart they are

[@BaeBunni]

You are talking about an animal with about 40 years of domestication vs 50,000 years. Dogs were extremely predatory for the first 20-30 thousand years of domestication before humans did even more selective breeding. Foxes right now are just being domesticated to be non-hostile, To get something like a dog we would have need millions of more foxes breeding to ultra specific qualifications without a chance of positive results.

[@cazadorconescopeta]

@@Abhishek-sr2pu rabbits Ferrets and Cats are domesticated and are stable

[@LinkTheFusky]

i want one

[@my.basement.is.full.]

why domesticate foxes if u want them to act like dogs, just get a dog 😆

[@huntinghighandlow8703]

Foxes are cuter and the make a laughing sound

[@NitinJadhav-cc2xh]

Yeah I have seen this. But they are not stable and behave weird. Not like dogs.

[@Abhishek-sr2pu]

It's like saying cats don't behave like dogs or parrots don't behave like dogs. Dogs are domesticated wolves not foxes, so of course they will behave differently.

[@Abhishek-sr2pu]

@BatCatShipper yeah but the thing is these foxes are domesticated.

[@chuckthetrooper]

Domesticated foxes are not dogs, just like domesticated cats are not like dogs. These foxes have their own personalities, but they can be trained in similar ways.

[@bradowen8862]

Maybe if given another centuries of selective breeding they might behave like dogs. While dogs have been domesticated for thousands of years

[@purebloodline]

Siberian tiger is better

[@deusexlacuna]

I want one

[@comfil]

Novorosibsk😂

[@gulia_turbo]

Novosibirsk. It's meant New Siberian city.

[@kalam434]

Evn the day if tiger 🐅 free mete than he would be human friendly. But what happens when they want sex.🐯 Oh! 😱😱😱😱😱

[@sheep.herder]

_how human ancestors, domesticated themselves_ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🐑🐑🐑

[@jonathanjollimore4794]

;)

[@bigfenix8272]

Take a group of the friendly foxes and start breeding them for the more dog-like traits

[@epicergamer4998]

That’s what they’ve been doing for the past 60 years😐🤡

[@Venitree]

@@epicergamer4998 lmao this is what happens when someone hasn't watched the video. (Not you I'm talking about big)

[@I_love_mbs]

Curry curry curry

[@joshtheposh4719]

Micro evolution = true Macro evolution = false

[@easypimpin123]

There's a very distinct reason why you cannot domesticate a fox. It's because of the natural environment and socialabilty of species you're trying to domestic. In general, animals that come from highly social species in the wild make the best pets. Wolves have highly sophisticated social structures. So do chimps. Hence why they both make tame pets. Wolves have something very special. The instinctive ability to recognize alpha and beta pack members. That in of itself makes them man's best friends because once it recognizes you and your family as alpha leaders it won't recognize you as a potential meal. And will obey your commands. And Wolves split from foxes about 12 million years ago. That's 12 million years to develop all the social instincts you want in a pet. Whereas foxes have not. And thats why 60+ years of domestication just won't turn that fox into a dog. Dogs have had a 12 million year head start.

[@saharali9889]

chimps aren't good pets they murder people fr they murder there owners ripping there face off mostly

[@Scarletazure]

Ok so we’re just gonna ignore house cats😂

[@ssssssstssssssss]

There are lots of domesticated animals besides dogs. Like even guinea pigs are domesticated. From my understanding the traits that make domestication hard are extreme neuroticism and/or very low agreeableness. In these experiments, they are selecting more agreeable less neurotic foxes. I would guess the baseline for those traits in foxes was not so extreme to make domestication impossible unlike previous attempts like the zebra

[@__T.O.G.]

Chimps are in no way tame, they're much like early humans, they can be nice one moment and rip your face off the next. As well as wild wolf packs don't have the "alpha beta" structure. That structure only happens in zoos. The person who discovered that structure later agreed that it was inaccurate to the way they act in the wild and a horrible example of how they behave, so wolves don't have a natural ability to recognize an alpha. These foxes have been bred to be more friendly and more social with humans, same as wild dogs were. When it comes to selective breeding whether they're social animals or not doesn't really matter since even completely wild and unsocial animals can be socialized and tamed and these have had it bred into them.

[@vidfuel12]

Sounds like a total failure so far, dogs did not come from wolves, that is the big problem, Jesus made them a separate tame species

[@spiegeleimitkase]

im totally sure you dont know about 'ururu tv' channel. also not Jesus, but Allah.

[@vidfuel12]

@@spiegeleimitkase Allah is Satan in disguise, so was the Angel who appeared to false prophet Mohammed

[@waverider8549]

Jesus?

[@Scarletazure]

No he didn’t lmao. I believe in god and also science and I know for a fact god made wolves and we did the taming part

[@User12345fan]

Indian accent yikes