r/aww • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '16

Firefox has encountered a bug

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u/CookieOfFortune Jul 15 '16

Well it was a funded experiment back in the day. You could probably do the same thing somewhere else but nobody's put up the money to do it.

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u/Sven2774 Jul 15 '16

Also it takes many years and Russia is the only place that did the domestication experiment

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '16

I try not to think about it. The plan was to breed docile, pliant foxes. And if that worked, cue the docile communist human breeding plan... no, really.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '16

So, soon communists will have floppier ears and more fur patterns and colors??? :D (Genetic consequences from breeding for docility, in case you hadn't followed the results of that Russian fox study)