One fox at the National Fox Welfare Society in England is just too friendly to be released back into the wild. World, meeting Pudding, the fox doesn’t quite act like a typical fox.

A Russian domesticated fox gives shows KPBS video journalist, Roland Lizarondo, a positive detection at the Judith A. Bassett Center in Santa Ysabel, Calif. April 6, 2023.

Alexandr Kryazhev/Sputnik It took evolution 15,000 years to turn wolves into dogs. Now, scientists from Novosibirsk have succeeded in breeding domesticated foxes in just 60 years. Gerda the fox is ...

In January of 2012, I found myself at the fox farm holding one of those domesticated foxes in my arms. It was a life-changing experience. Within five seconds, it was licking my face and nibbling ...

Humans have an almost absurd affinity for turning wild animals into unlikely pets: Elephants, Burmese pythons and Siberian tigers have been kept as household pets, with limited success. A widely ...

In a famous experiment, scientists bred Russian foxes without a fear of people. But the foxes’ ancestry raises new questions about when they became tame and what counts as domestication.

He started a fox farm in Siberia and set out to do with foxes in one lifetime what took dogs thousands of years. Belyaev died in 1985, but others carried on his work; 50,000 foxes later, the ...

In 2021, an animal shelter in Vacaria, Brazil discovered an animal that appeared to hybrid between a domestic dog and a pampas fox—a “false” fox that’s actually a canid more similar to ...

Raven recounts the story of their relationship in her 2021 memoir, “Fox and I.” An instant best seller, the book belongs to a booming subgenre of autobiography: memoirs about the surprising ...

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