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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Videos of friendly, gentle foxes approaching humans, seemingly wanting to play, are going viral on TikTok. But just because a species is sociable doesn't necessarily make it domesticated. An urban red ...