Like many breakthroughs in science, Dmitri Belyaev’s silver fox domestication experiment began with a thunderbolt: one simple, powerful, new idea. Born of a parish priest in early 20th century Russia, ...

Long time readers of Dog O’Day may recall a previous article about the experiments in fox domestication. One notable experiment mentioned started in Siberia in 1959, the silver fox domestication ...

What happens when wild animals are selectively bred for friendliness? In this video, we dive into the decades-long Russian ...

Lyudmila Trut, the geneticist who led the decades-long experiment that created hundreds ... the work that Trut and her colleagues have done on the silver fox, a variant of the red fox, has become ...

and together they devised an experiment to replicate the earliest days of dog domestication, but using a canid that had never before been domesticated: the silver fox. From fur farms they ...

Belyaev chose the silver fox for his experiment; this species is related to the dog, but it is not domesticated. The initial foxes in Belyaev's experiment were not trained in any way, but simply ...

It started by deconstructing Belyayev's famous experiment with farm foxes ... after multiple generations of controlled breeding silver foxes on Prince Edward Island, the animals began to develop ...

Perhaps the most famous experiment in domestication is a project in Russia that turned silver morphs of the wild red fox into tamer and more dog-like silver foxes in just 40 generations.