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A silver fox. The silver fox, sometimes referred to as the black fox, [1] or blue fox, [2] is a melanistic form of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes). Silver foxes display a great deal of pelt variation. Some are completely glossy black except for a white colouration on the tip of the tail, giving them a somewhat silvery appearance.
[22] Trut reported that female foxes heterozygous for the gene controlling the star pattern also influenced the number of male pups, increasing the number of males over the expected 50%. As the fox experiment has progressed over time, it was found that in general the number of male pups increased over the expected 50% to approximately 54%. [23]
"Silver fox" is used to describe an attractive older man. While the term is not discriminatory, many men described as silver foxes have gray, white, or silver (!) hair.
The silver fox is not a separate species, but is a genetic variant born occasionally to red foxes. Since the silver is rare in the wild, it is more valuable than red fox. In the 1880s some men on Prince Edward Island tried breeding silver fox to each other in captivity, and managed to produce more silver fox pelts to sell. Their production ...
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The domesticated silver fox is a form of the silver fox which has been domesticated - to some extent - under laboratory conditions. The silver fox is a melanistic form of the wild red fox . Domesticated silver foxes are the result of an experiment which was designed to demonstrate the power of selective breeding to transform species, as ...
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