• Australian foxes are pests not pets, NSW declares
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[QUOTE=Michael haxz;46666045]And your worrying about the things that usually don't try to kill us? [IMG]https://d3lp4xedbqa8a5.cloudfront.net/s3/digital-cougar-assets/AusGeo/2014/06/13/16315/australias-most-dangerous-eastern-brown-snake.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2013-12/enhanced/webdr07/16/9/anigif_enhanced-buzz-29112-1387205950-19.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://d3lp4xedbqa8a5.cloudfront.net/s3/digital-cougar-assets/AusGeo/2013/12/10/32615/shark_crGettyImages_main.jpg[/IMG] I think there's more things to worry about than foxes[/QUOTE] I've seen more foxes spread parasites, diseases and attack/kill children and animals than I've seen sharks, toilet seats or desert snakes do any of these.
Man's greatest folly is that we never bred domesticated red foxes into existence.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;46670844][URL]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1370042[/URL][/QUOTE] Dude... what the fuck. That didn't happen in Australia, though. [editline]9th December 2014[/editline] On an unrelated note, I friggin' hate toads and frogs. I just don't like 'em. Can I go to Straya and start a [I]cane toad holocaust?[/I] :v:
[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;46665691]Frogs =/= Toads. If anything eats a toad it will die, plain and simple (there are a handful of exceptions, but they are very few and far in between).[/QUOTE] Interestingly they've found that crocs are learning - they kept finding all these mangled, legless toads. Turns out the crocs have found that just eating the legs is safe! [editline]9th December 2014[/editline] But yeah I assumed that foxes were already considered pests.
[QUOTE=soccerskyman;46674626]Man's greatest folly is that we never bred domesticated red foxes into existence.[/QUOTE] No particular reason do so beyond having them as pets. Not when we'd already domesticated wolves, bigger and more useful for hunting or defense plus already had pack behavior and more sociable. Domesticating Siberian Foxes worked quite well, but success there required selective breeding for domesticated traits and was only possible because they were running the breeding program alongside a fur farm and had a very large selection of foxes to pick from. Weirdly the domesticated foxes started diverging very rapidly from wild foxes, much like dogs from wolves. Broader skulls, floppy ears on some adult foxes, never before seen (on a fox) fur colors and patterns. I expect if humans had domesticated foxes earlier, by now the resulting animals would resemble nothing more or less than a small agile dog breed.
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