ArticleBehavioural processes2011
Explosive vocal activity for attracting human attention is related to domestication in silver fox.
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- Tracking domestication signals across populations of North American raccoons (Procyon lotor) via citizen science-driven image repositories.Frontiers in zoology · 2025Article
- Welfare of American mink, red and Arctic foxes, raccoon dog and chinchilla kept for fur production.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2025Article
- Domestication effects on crowing in chickens: variation between wild and captive red junglefowl and domestic white Leghorn and the genetic architecture of crowing vocalizations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The domestication of the larynx: The neural crest connection.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2024Article
- The brain of the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes): a neuroanatomical reference of cell-stained histological and MRI images.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
- Genetic distance from wolves affects family dogs' reactions towards howls.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Domestication Phenotype Linked to Vocal Behavior in Marmoset Monkeys.Current biology : CB · 2020Article
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- Humans identify negative (but not positive) arousal in silver fox vocalizations: implications for the adaptive value of interspecific eavesdropping.Current zoology · 2017Article
- Effects of selection for behavior, human approach mode and sex on vocalization in silver fox.Journal of ethology · 2013Article
- Genetics of behavior in the silver fox.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2012Review
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Abstract
Domestication affects behavioral and vocal responses, involved in communication with humans; in particular, those that attract human attention. In this study, we found that silver foxes of Tame strain, experimentally domesticated for a few tenses of generation, displayed bursts of vocal activity during the first minute after appearance of an unfamiliar human, that faded quickly during the remaining time of the test, when the experimenter stayed passively before the cage. Distinctively, foxes of Aggressive strain, artificially selected for tenses of generation for aggressive behavior toward humans, and the control group of Unselected for behavior silver foxes kept steady levels of vocal activity for the duration of the tests. We found also that Aggressive foxes vocalized for a larger proportion of time than Unselected foxes for all 5 min of the test. We discuss the obtained data in relation to proposal effects of domestication on mechanisms directed to involving people into human-animal interactions and structural similarity between human laughter and vocalization of Tame foxes.
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