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Published online 7 February 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050207-3

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Friendly foxes are cleverer

Domesticated foxes show evolution of social intelligence.

For almost half a century, a population of foxes in Siberia has been bred to be unafraid of humans and non-aggressive. Now these foxes seem to have shown that social skills come as a perk of being friendly.

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