In a number of other Psychology Today posts (here and here), I have written about the remarkable silver fox domestication study that my colleague and friend Lyudmila Trut (who has been leading this ...

I wanted to give readers a quick update to my March 27th post “Want to Build a Dog From a Fox? Here's How to Do It.” In that post, I wrote “Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged ...

In 1959, Dmitri Belyaev made his way to Siberia to look for the most polite foxes he could find. A Soviet geneticist, Belyaev was interested in how animal domestication occurs — and in what happens ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many animal lovers have pet dogs or cats. Some have snakes, or gerbils, or rabbits. But you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in ...

Many animal lovers have pet dogs or cats. Some have snakes, or gerbils, or rabbits. But you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in Vermont with a pet fox – and for good reason. Keeping a fox as a pet is ...

The Falkland Islands, now famous for its sheep, was once home to just one native mammal: the Falkland Islands "wolf". I crack out “these guys” because we’ve since learned that these strange, tame ...