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 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 ...

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 New Hampshire with a pet fox – and for good reason. Keeping a fox as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

What happens when wild animals are selectively bred for friendliness? In this video, we dive into the decades-long Russian experiment that turned aggressive silver foxes into playful, dog-like ...

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 Connecticut with a pet fox – and for good reason: keeping a fox as a pet ...