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November-December 2020
Volume 108, Number 6
Page 324
To the Editors:
I enjoyed Pat Shipman’s article, “The Elusive Dingo,” but I was surprised that there was no mention of the Russian work on domesticated foxes (see “Early Canid Domestication: The Farm Fox Experiment” by Lyudmila Trut; “How to Tame a Foxand Build a Dog” by Lee Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut; and “The Genes Behind Domestication” by Lee Dugatkin). The first part of the article’s subtitle, “neither quite domesticated nor entirely wild,” would seem to be equally appropriate for the animals in the intermediate stages of the fox domestication experiment.
Josh Knight
Mohegan
Lake, NY
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