Sun Jan 17, 2021 03:43 PM
There should be a selective breeding program for racoons to create a domesticated species of racoon. It would settle a debate on a botched scientific experiment about taming foxes and hopefully create playful and huggable racoons that wouldn’t run wild and destroy everything in a house. Still very cute little monsters.
Decades ago, a Soviet geneticist purposely bred foxes to make them extra tame, an experiment that produced a host of unanticipated physical changes in the animals. Its one of the most famous experiments in genetics, but it might not have gone down in the way we were told. A new opinion paper argues these foxes&
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