The Tamest Foxes and the First Dogs: teacher key
Dogs, grade 9 edition, written for 9th grade. A Russian fox experiment, gene studies and old graves show how dogs may have joined us. Learn what is argued, what is tested and how to meet one safely.
Read the book. Print this page for the key.
Questions and answers
- What did Trut do to choose which foxes to breed?
- She picked the biggest foxes
- She tested how each fox reacted when she put her gloved hand in its cage (answer)
- She picked the fastest foxes
- What happened to many tame foxes' ears, tails and faces?
- They grew wings
- They grew longer fur
- They kept childlike traits into adulthood (answer)
- What did the 2013 gene study find about AMY2B?
- Dogs have more copies than wolves (answer)
- Wolves have more copies than dogs
- Dogs have none
- What did the Duke study rule out as the reason the wolf puppies did worse?
- They were not hungry
- They could not see
- A lack of time with people (answer)
- What does it mean that Belyaev's idea is 'not settled fact'?
- It has been proven
- It is a proposal that scientists still weigh (answer)
- It was dropped
- What did the puppy's care suggest to the museum curator?
- Some Paleolithic people already had a strong emotional bond with dogs (answer)
- Dogs were only used for work
- Dogs were scared of people
Words
- domestication: taming over time
- oxytocin: bonding chemical
- distemper: a dog sickness
- syndrome: set of traits
- Paleolithic: Stone Age