- Urban foxes may be self-domesticating in our midst. A new experiment showed that a fox's habitat (e.g. urban vs. rural) affects the shape of its skull, consistent with the morphological changes that occur with domestication (e.g. wolves and dogs). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.0763 26 comments science
Linking pages
- How foxes are domesticating themselves | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2020/06/09/how-foxes-are-domesticating-themselves/ 142 comments
- Anthropogenic environments exert variable selection on cranial capacity in mammals | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1769/20131384 53 comments
- London Foxes Show Early Signs of Self-Domestication | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/london-foxes-show-early-signs-domestication-180975042/?amp%3BspJobID=1780711933&%3BspMailingID=42684149&%3BspReportId=MTc4MDcxMTkzMwS2&%3BspUserID=OTg1NTI1MTgyNzczS0&%3Butm_campaign=20200608-daily-responsive&%3Butm_medium=email 12 comments