ETV Bharat / international
అదిరేటి డ్రస్సు మేమేస్తే.. అంటున్న శునకాలు - SHOW
జార్జియాలోని ఓ కార్యక్రమానికి హూందాగా, అందంగా తయారయ్యి వచ్చారు పోటీదారులు. వారంతా ఎవరనుకుంటున్నారు? మనుషులు కాదు.. పెంపుడు కుక్కలు. కార్టూన్ గెటప్లు, సినిమా పాత్రలు, ప్రపంచ ప్రఖ్యాతి గాంచిన పాప్ కల్చర్ దుస్తులతో ముస్తాబయ్యాయా శునకాలు. ప్రదర్శనలో దర్జాగా పాల్గొన్నాయి.
అదిరేటి డ్రస్సు మేమేస్తే.. అంటున్న శునకాలు
By
Published : Aug 18, 2019, 10:31 PM IST
| Updated : Sep 27, 2019, 11:01 AM IST
అదిరేటి డ్రస్సు మేమేస్తే.. అంటున్న శునకాలు జార్జియా రాజధాని అట్లాంటాలో డాగ్ కాన్ కన్వెన్షన్ పేరుతో ఓ కార్యక్రమం నిర్వహించారు. ఈ ఈవెంట్తో నగరంలో ప్రస్తుతం పండగ వాతావరణం నెలకొంది. వందలాది కుక్కలు ప్రత్యేక అలంకరణ దుస్తుల్లో ముస్తాబై వాటి యజమానులతో కలిసి ఇక్కడికి వచ్చాయి. అట్లాంటాలోని డౌన్టౌన్ వుడ్రఫ్ పార్కు ఈ ప్రదర్శనకు వేదికైంది.
శునకాలు ముస్తాబైన తీరు చూస్తే మీరు ఆశ్చర్యపోక మానరు. వీడియో గేమ్లలో ఉన్న కల్పిత పాత్రల గెటప్లు, సినిమాలోని పాత్రలు, ప్రపంచ ప్రఖ్యాతి గాంచిన పాప్ కల్చర్ దుస్తులను ధరించి ప్రదర్శనలో పాల్గొన్నాయి. ఇందులో అందంగా తయారైన కుక్కలకు బహుమతులు అందజేశారు.
త్వరలో రాబోయే డ్రాగన్ కాన్ కార్యక్రమాన్ని స్పూర్తిగా తీసుకుని ఈ ప్రదర్శన నిర్వహించారు. దాదాపు 30 ఏళ్ల నుంచి డ్రాగన్ కాన్ ఈవెంట్ వేలాది మందిని ఆకట్టుకుంటోంది.
ఇదీ చూడండి:- దున్నపోతులపై పందెం కాసి రాక్షసానందం!
అదిరేటి డ్రస్సు మేమేస్తే.. అంటున్న శునకాలు జార్జియా రాజధాని అట్లాంటాలో డాగ్ కాన్ కన్వెన్షన్ పేరుతో ఓ కార్యక్రమం నిర్వహించారు. ఈ ఈవెంట్తో నగరంలో ప్రస్తుతం పండగ వాతావరణం నెలకొంది. వందలాది కుక్కలు ప్రత్యేక అలంకరణ దుస్తుల్లో ముస్తాబై వాటి యజమానులతో కలిసి ఇక్కడికి వచ్చాయి. అట్లాంటాలోని డౌన్టౌన్ వుడ్రఫ్ పార్కు ఈ ప్రదర్శనకు వేదికైంది.
శునకాలు ముస్తాబైన తీరు చూస్తే మీరు ఆశ్చర్యపోక మానరు. వీడియో గేమ్లలో ఉన్న కల్పిత పాత్రల గెటప్లు, సినిమాలోని పాత్రలు, ప్రపంచ ప్రఖ్యాతి గాంచిన పాప్ కల్చర్ దుస్తులను ధరించి ప్రదర్శనలో పాల్గొన్నాయి. ఇందులో అందంగా తయారైన కుక్కలకు బహుమతులు అందజేశారు.
త్వరలో రాబోయే డ్రాగన్ కాన్ కార్యక్రమాన్ని స్పూర్తిగా తీసుకుని ఈ ప్రదర్శన నిర్వహించారు. దాదాపు 30 ఏళ్ల నుంచి డ్రాగన్ కాన్ ఈవెంట్ వేలాది మందిని ఆకట్టుకుంటోంది.
ఇదీ చూడండి:- దున్నపోతులపై పందెం కాసి రాక్షసానందం!
RUSSIA TAMED FOXES
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
LENGTH: 6:15
SHOTLIST:
ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Novosibirsk - 5 August 2019
1. Mid of Yulia Shekhtman, fox owner, and domesticated fox Inari inside apartment
2. Close of Shekhtman petting Inari
3. Mid of Shekhtman and Inari out on leash
4. Mid of Shekhtman and Inari going down stairs
5. Wide of Shekhtman and Inari walking out of building
6. Wide of Shekhtman and Inari walking by
7. Various of Shekhtman and Inari
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yulia Shekhtman, fox owner:
"It's a very interesting animal, truly interesting, they are easily trained - (to Inari) stop - they understand some things better than dogs, so it's very rewarding, but you have to spend tons of time on them. Come here, Inari, come! It took us about two years to be able to take him for walks, leave him home alone, and not to be worried about our possessions and so forth. You have to be with a pet fox all the time, and if you have lots of time to spare, then yes, you can get a fox."
ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Novosibirsk - 6 August 2019
9. Close of Anastasiya Kharlamova, Senior Research Officer of the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory of the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics, whistling and knocking on floor and two foxes approaching
10. Various of foxes playing and eating in the yard
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Anastasiya Kharlamova, Senior Research Officer of the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory of the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics:
"The idea was to reproduce the process of historical domestication. Species such as dogs were the first to go through this process. Foxes were chosen first of all due to the fact they are closely related to dogs. However, by the time the research started they had already been bred for fur production, so there was a wide selection of species."
12. Various of Lyudmila Trut, Senior Research Officer of the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics, in her office
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Lyudmila Trut, Senior Research Officer of the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory of the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics:
"I'll tell you what we did. We formed a select group brought in from farms all over the USSR for crossbreeding. Then out of their offspring, we selected all the calmest cubs. And we have been doing this from generation to generation. And, as you know, there have been 60 generations of them. Well, the selection turned what were once aggressive and sneaky foxes into animals as friendly as a dog."
14. Various of pictures on Trut's desk
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Lyudmila Trut, Senior Research Officer of the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory of the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics:
"It was a giant step. Dogs evolved into what they are - or rather a wolf turned into a dog over tens of thousands of years. The domestic dog is believed to be 12-13 thousand years old. But we have managed to get such unique animals in a matter of decades, not a thousand years."
16. Various of Yury Gerbek, Deputy Chief of the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory of the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics, in lab
17. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yury Gerbek, Deputy Chief of the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory of the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics:
"We get the DNA and RNA of foxes, comparing tamed and wild species. We search for genes responsible for the differences."
18. Various of foxes in cages
19. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Anna Shilina, President of the Sports Applied Dog-Breeding Federation in Novosibirsk:
"Foxes are primordially wild animals. They are also mostly nocturnal animals, that make a lot of noise at night as well as in the daytime. They need to be active all the time, with something to chew on, and if that happens inside an apartment, the neighbours are the ones who suffer the most and you need soundproofing."
ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Novosibirsk - 5 August 2019
20. Mid of Shekhtman and Inari opposite a woman with dog
21. Close of Inari the domesticated fox and dog interacting
LEAD IN:
An astonishing breeding experiment in Soviet Siberia has resulted in domesticated foxes.
The project, which began in the late fifties and continues to this day, sped up thousands of years of evolution - produced tame foxes in just a few decades.
STORYLINE:
This is Inari, a pet fox.
Yulia Shekhtman lives in Siberia, and has taken care of Inari for 3 years.
He has a special hutch on her balcony, and when he gets fed up of walking around the flat, he goes for a walk in the park.
The fox now can also walk all around the apartment and on a field next to the house, but it hasn't always been like that.
"It took us about two years to be able to take him for walks, leave him home alone, and not to be worried about our possessions and so forth," explains Shekhtman.
"You have to be with a pet fox all the time, and if you have lots of time to spare, then yes, you can get a fox," she adds.
The journey towards taming foxes was an unusual one, and it began in 1959 at the Laboratory of the Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics.
Geneticist Dmitri Belyaev attempted to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs and study the process of domestication.
He led a programme which started with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR.
"The idea was to reproduce the process of historical domestication," explains Anastasiya Kharlamova, a lab senior research officer at the Institute.
"Foxes were chosen first of all due to the fact they are closely related to dogs," she adds.
Lyudmila Trut is the Senior Research Officer for the entire institute. She worked on the project from the very beginning and took over from Belyaev.
She recalls how the research began.
"We formed a select group brought in from farms all over the USSR for crossbreeding," she says.
"Then out of their offspring, we selected all the calmest cubs. And we have been doing this from generation to generation. And, as you know, there have been 60 generations of them. Well, the selection turned what were once aggressive and sneaky foxes into animals as friendly as a dog."
"It was a giant step," she adds.
Through this project, the scientists domesticated foxes in a way that took millennia for dogs.
"Dogs evolved into what they are - or rather a wolf turned into a dog over tens of thousands of years. But we have managed to get such unique animals in a matter of decades, not a thousand years," says Trut.
And the unique experiment continues to this day.
Yury Gerbek is Deputy Chief of the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory at the Institute and analyses the data from the foxes.
"We get fox's DNA and RNA, comparing tamed and wild species," he explains.
"We search for genes responsible for the differences."
But for some canine specialists, dogs and foxes should be treated separately.
Anna Shilina is the president of the Sports Applied Dog-Breeding Federation in Novosibirsk.
"Foxes are primordially wild animals," she says.
"They are also mostly nocturnal animals, that make a lot of noise at night as well as in the daytime. They need to be active all the time, with something to chew on, and if that happens inside an apartment, the neighbours are the ones who suffer the most and you need soundproofing."
The Institute's farm started selling fox cubs in 2011 and today, potential owners can buy one of their foxes online.
So far, dozens of tamed foxes have found homes and families in America, the Netherlands, France, South Korea, and Russia.
====
Clients are reminded:
(i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com.
(ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service
(iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory.
Last Updated : Sep 27, 2019, 11:01 AM IST
