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, ...

An urban red fox wanders on top of a brick wall. People who see evidence of “self-domestication” in foxes are confusing it with habituation, experts say. Jakub Rutkiewicz, Shutterstock In a video with ...

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. Lyudmila Trut with one of her domesticated foxes Lyudmila Trut, who has died aged 90, was a Soviet scientist and lead researcher ...

Long time readers of Dog O’Day may recall a previous article about the experiments in fox domestication. One notable ...

Ceiridwen Terrill, associate professor at Concordia University in Portland, Ore., wrote a book about her experience raising a wolf-dog. For thousands of years, dogs have been our companions. After ...

In 1959, Soviet scientists embarked on an audacious experiment to breed a population of tame foxes, a strain of animals that wouldn’t be aggressive or fearful of people. Scientists painstakingly ...

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 ...