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The mysterious, extinct ‘Fuegian dog’ was actually a semi-tame foxwww.sciencenews.org/article/fuegian-dog-fox
175 sats \ 4 comments \ @siggy47 11 Sep Animal_World
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72 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 11 Sep
That’s interesting.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @ladyluck 11 Sep
The idea that the Fuegian dog is a semi-tame fox is wild! It’s cool to think about how ancient peoples might have interacted with these animals
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 11 Sep
Human-fox relationships may have developed independently around the world. For instance, in Europe, red foxes have been tagging along with humans for over 40,000 years.
“The fact that such a development also occurred in South America doesn’t come as a surprise to me,” says Chris Baumann, a paleoecologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, who coauthored the red fox study.
It’s crazy how long this bond has lasted.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Oxy 11 Sep
How do the researchers differentiate between a truly domesticated animal and one that simply became accustomed to human presence and scavenged for food?
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