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Belyaev moved to a Siberian research institute, where he decided to test his ideas by conducting a simple breeding experiment with foxes. Rather than selecting foxes based on the quality of their pelts, as fox breeders would normally do, he selected them for tameness. Whichever fox pups were least fearful of humans were bred to create the next gene
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This meant that by breeding the animals for tameness, Belyaev had actually created a different animal.
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The experiment was elegant in its simplicity. Using a toy lion and a toy zebra, Barrett asked each child, “When the lion sees the zebra, what does the lion want to do?” The results were surprising: 75 percent of the three-year-olds in both groups answered with some variation of “The lion wants to chase/bite/kill the zebra.” (It must be remembered t
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Thousands of years of breeding have delayed the socialization phase in dogs, and today it starts when they are four weeks old. With both wolves and dogs, the formative period lasts only four weeks. While not all the wolf pups’ senses are fully developed at this important time, puppies explore their environment equipped with their full sensory reper
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Di tutt’altra natura è l’attaccamento e la fedeltà di quelle razze che hanno nelle vene sangue lupino. In luogo del persistente attaccamento infantile che distingue soprattutto i nostri comuni cani domestici, discendenti dallo sciacallo dorato, prevale in quelli una fedeltà virile. Mentre lo sciacallo è in sostanza un animale selvatico stanziale e
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