Comment on Job scarcity is even affecting animals

• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even the great arctic fox experiment couldn’t seem to breed that out.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Curious, I looked it up. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox

    It was done in the 50s. So I think we should take another stab at it!

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    • treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now we can GMO that right out!

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s news to me. But it’s probably been over a decade since I last looked into it. At one point they were even selling domesticated foxes to people as pets but were warning about their scenting. Thanks for the update!

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    • rooster_butt@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They also lost their ‘musky fox smell’."[6]

      From the wiki. So seems like they did breed that out?

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