Tag: Tameness

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 4, 2020

Categorized
Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Dmitry Belyaev, Domestication, Elinor Karlsson, Genetics, Jared Diamond, Silver foxes, Tameness}

Tame Animals, Not Wild Ones, Are Mysterious

_{A recent discovery about tame foxes sheds some light but deepens the larger mystery} _{Denyse O'Leary

January 4, 2020

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Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

New research puts us back where we started. The foxes are tame. But why are they tame? Other foxes are decidedly not tame. Why is it so easy to “tame” dogs and cats but not wolves and bobcats?