People once kept foxes as domestic pets, an Oxford study has found. An extinct species of fox, a Dusicyon avus, was kept by humans 1,500 years ago in Patagonia, according to the scientists ...
Our ancestors may have kept foxes as pets long before domestic dogs came on the scene. Archaeological evidence suggests ancient human societies in South America revered foxes to such an extent ...
The team, led by the University of Glasgow, stressed that urban foxes remained far from domesticated. But they said the changes mirrored the way dogs and cats became domestic pets. Many cities ...