>>40454343>Actually, the Russian raised variants (assuming you mean those produced by the Russian breeding projects) are domesticatedYeah? Go to their site and control F ‘group b’, they are not actually domesticated.
>It's a low level of domestication, sure, but it's domestication.It took humans 12,000 years to domesticate wolves and its still ongoing with some breeds still practically being wolves, it ain’t happening in 60 years no matter how aggressively they bred. They are tame not domesticated.
>They've developed traits we only see in domesticated animals (limp ears, wagging tails, star burst patterns, etc).No they haven’t that is actually a consequence of decreased stress hormones which also influence those traits and is actually considered a defect as unlike dogs its like these animals have undergone a lobotomy. They have low motivation, reaction to stimulus, and are basically retarded when it comes to socializing with other foxes. They’ve been mutilated genetically like those german shepherds with hugely crooked spines through bad breeding practices. Anyway scientists do not consider them to be truely domesticated, only partly
