Long time readers of Dog O’Day may recall a previous article about the experiments in fox domestication. One notable experiment mentioned started in Siberia in 1959, the silver fox domestication ...

In the 1950s, geneticist Dmitri Belyaev conducted a well-known animal domestication experiment at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia, in which he tamed silver foxes (Vulpes ...

Red foxes found in Colorado have a few different color phases, Red, Cross, black, and the elusive silver. All of the colors ...

Hidden away on this overgrown property, flanked by birch forests and barred by a rusty metal gate, he and several hundred of his relatives are the only population of domesticated silver foxes in ...

A ranger stumbled upon a unique sight on Monday when he crossed paths with a silver fox with a rare genetic variation in ...

“Note that silver foxes are the same species as red foxes,” the agency said. “According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, ...

Belyaev chose the silver fox for his experiment; this species is related to the dog, but it is not domesticated. The initial foxes in Belyaev's experiment were not trained in any way, but simply ...