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   Rapid evolution is making red foxes more like dogs in 1 distinct way   
      
   For more than a century, foxes have been taking over London. There's   
   now one fox per every 300 people in England's capital.   
      
   This time spent in cityscapes has led urban foxes to take on new   
   traits, recent research shows. They have become noticeably different   
   from their wild counterparts after only a few generations.   
      
   In just over a century, urban-dwelling red foxes, Vulpes vulpes, have   
   developed smaller heads and shorter, wider snouts compared to foxes in   
   rural areas, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal   
   Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The urban foxes also show a less   
   extreme size difference between males and females.   
      
   These specific attributes, and the rapid pace of their evolution,   
   suggest that the foxes are changing in a unique way -- a process that   
   perhaps involves more than random mutations.   
      
   The changes are also remarkably similar to what happened in the early   
   days of dog and cat domestication.   
      
   Researchers believe that the different snout shape developed to help   
   city foxes sniff around for morsels of food in human garbage.   
      
   https://www.inverse.com/science/urban-fox-study-new-clues-animal-domestication   
      
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