Unbearably Cute: Baby Foxes Domesticated

The better blogs would analyze this in terms of what is says about the culture of science, and the fact the NG magazine is using it as a cute picture, rather than as a science story. Here you'll get no such heavy and profound thinking. My take: I know I shouldn't, but I want one.

National Geographic: Baby Foxes Going to the Dogs

"Young foxes, or kits, scamper in a cage in Siberia, Russia, where they are part of a 45-year research project to domesticate foxes...By now the foxes in the project behave like pet dogs, barking and wagging their tails at humans."
"...the domesticated foxes can "read" human cues (pointing, for example) much better than their wild cousins"

Via Heaneyland

Comments

[The Fixer]

I want one too.

[shannon]

sooooooooo cute

[shannon]

sooooooooo cute

[Nigiheijami Kohaku Noshy]

Well, of course they're cute, but these "creatures" are no foxes anymore! Thats cruel how they changed and what humans did on them for that! In my point of view...no, its not a fox anymore...

[Ridley]

Stupid humans ~