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Comment by burnt-resistor

4 days ago

Foxes too, generally. The average temperament tends to include curiosity, playfulness, and wariness but not moral fear of humans. People keep them as household pets so I'd call that domesticable. An experiment to speed up the process of fox domestication was undertaken. [0] Foxes tend to not be like almost all wolves (and many wolfdogs) which are reserved, not prone to social openness, and hard to read like American Akitas which makes them dangerous by dominance challenging, miscommunication, and untrustworthiness.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox

What is "moral fear of humans"?

As crepuscular animals, they are very, very afraid of humans.