This Woman Lets a Fox Inside During a Thunderstorm, and He Makes Himself Right at Home
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Key Points:
- Michelle Robinson rescued a fox during a thunderstorm by inviting it into her home, where the fox quickly became comfortable and sought affection, surprising viewers with its calm behavior.
- The video of the fox entering Michelle's home went viral, amassing over 5.7 million views and sparking widespread viewer fascination and humorous comments about the fox's unexpected domestication-like behavior.
- Some commenters speculated that foxes might be in the early stages of self-domestication, similar to cats, a phenomenon currently being studied by experts in the United Kingdom.
- Melinda Zeder, an archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution, noted that foxes have shown tendencies toward self-domestication before but have never fully transitioned to domesticated animals, and the reasons for this remain unknown.
