""The Fox Domestication Project and the Genetics of Complex Behavior"

[@XaurreauX]

Not to take away from the content, but did they have to focus on people who were chewing? Just askin'.

[@passtheparcel360]

Lady, you are a fecking genius!

[@Chyrre]

Fun fact. The audience are extras from the Walking Dead

[@tommyodonovan3883]

Nearly dead

[@davethompson7768]

WHat is the name of the documentary she is using?

[@mirageinmercuryshadow]

When will thy be able to be sold in the domestic market?

[@nearlystuck6947]

ZoophreemiaHouse they already are. About 3k USD plus shipping. And depending on your country/state you may need a exotics permit.

[@bickle8931]

You can but they are really bad pets do to their behaviors like peeing on everything

[@HolyDiety]

They were eventually able to tame all the foxes meaning once there were more than maybe 30% of the population tamed all the other foxes gained confidence to trust humans as a positive stimulus rather than a threat and the fox community changed.

[@michaels4255]

I don't think you have the story right. The standard social science model is strong with this one!

[@Steve-gj3gf]

Can someone provide a link to the documentary that was made....i think maybe by nat geo?

[@sherryshaffield323]

I remember watching a documentary on this... I'm looking for it now. I thought it was PBS or BBC documentary

[@passtheparcel360]

Professor, are you free for a date?

[@lazysmurf420]

Is that Jordan Peterson at 10:08?

[@letmeseethat1]

@@floatinjellies Shut up puss

[@michaels4255]

No, but the resemblance is striking.

[@finaltheorygames1781]

In a few hundred years they will be just like dogs.

[@jerico9263]

Not like dogs cats aren't just like dogs

[@azureshieldchannel1969]

@@jerico9263 foxes are cat dogs

[@tommyodonovan3883]

The question is....Are humans that much different than foxes? *see Ted Kazinsky and his MKULTRA experience.

[@tommyodonovan3883]

See also *Mouse utopian experiments* and NIMH.... what nightmares are made of.

[@passtheparcel360]

OMG, who else wants a domestic fox as a pet?

[@OstapBender]

Well im from Russia and i thinking about a domestic fox. But i think a pet need a lots of space and such a pet is not for my city appartments... but! If the experiment continues, maybe in next decade will be even more domesctic generation of those foxes. Anyway thats fantastic experiment.

[@hereticaldream2226]

This is 100% happening to us humans. The question is, is it deliberate or just a function of nature? Or maybe both? 🤔

[@muhammadibnmusaal-chorezmi7240]

Wait till WW2 starts and you see that humans are still ugly beasts

[@noagendasevenseven1231]

Well of course, it is happening to all life. Even if it was deliberate (as in some nefarious plot to make humans more docile) isn't that still a function of nature? We tend to think that anything that humans touch disturbs nature. Fun fact, we are also nature. Now whether having some cabal dictating the selection is more of an ethical question, which personally i would be against. Now if some alien or interdimensional being is selecting us that's entirely different. Although one could make the argument that aliens are also part of nature.

[@drkmgic]

its a dog

[@michaels4255]

Not a dog. Dogs are domesticated wolves. These are domesticated foxes. Foxes cannot cross with wolves, dogs, jackals, or coyotes. Entirely different genus.

[@passtheparcel360]

Slow down professor.

[@euphoria_jkjk7273]

this is so boring

[@passtheparcel360]

Guessing you never made it through 3rd grade 😂😂😂