JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio (WTRF) — Two domesticated foxes were rescued earlier this month after being abandoned outside when their owner moved away, according to the Jefferson County Humane Society and ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Helping an animal in need can be as easy as contacting a local rescue, but some people go above and beyond for a furry friend ...

New research led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows the historical origins of farmed fox populations through time and space. The population genetics study provides new insights into ...

Lyudmila Trut, who has died aged 90, was a Soviet scientist and lead researcher on the silver fox domestication study, one of the most significant biology experiments of the 20th century, compressing ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, dogs have been our companions. After countless generations of selective breeding, they've become hard-wired to follow human commands: sit, lie down, jump, even shake. So far, ...

Foxes are described as “dog hardware running cat software.” These animals are incredible problem solvers, build extremely detailed mental maps of their environment, and can recognize individuals. Over ...

This marks my fourth Psychology Today post on a remarkable experiment in evolution that has been underway in Novosibirsk, Russia for the last sixty-one years. Researchers have been, year after year, ...