It has been shown by Belyaev and Trut that foxes can be domesticated, over the time of various generations, by selecting and mating animals with certain traits, like responses to feeding, handling, and others.
A sustained multi-generational association in which one group of species presumes a substantial extent of effect over the care and reproduction of another group to secure a more predictable supply of resources from that latter group is known as domestication.
Hind forests and stag forests are so called because of the tendencies of red deer to form large, single-sex herds outside the autumn rutting time, and most forests hold either a resident stag herd or a hind herd for much of the year.
