Re: "Why your dog is smarter than a wolf"



"Mitch" <mitch_skool@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Guess what happens
>to foxes when you selectively breed them to like humans? They not only
>start to act like dogs, they start to look like dogs. And read faces.

They had a NOVA epipsode with lots of footage from
the fox breeding experiment.

The black-tri puppy-dog foxes they ended up with were really cool...

-Mike
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