The Dog Zombie

Ah, the beloved Tame Fox Project ! I worked in a lab that focused on these foxes for four years, during my PhD in Kukekova Lab at the Unive...

Why are some dogs better at paying attention to humans, particularly human gestures like pointing, than others? We know genetics has some...

I came across a new article on the Russian tame foxes today, Russian geneticist repeats dog domestication with foxes in just fifty years . ...

What we know and what we don’t know about dog domestication Want to learn more about dog domestication? It's not too late to sign...

Domesticated humans, domesticated canids, domesticated finches! The Center for Academic Training & Research in Anthropogeny held a confe...

So you have the full sequence of a couple few dog genomes, and a wolf genome to boot. (Yes, these days sequencing is cheap enough that genom...

Despite my previous voracious reading about tame foxes, as I settle in to my new lab I’m realizing how much I don’t know about them. For ex...

[This was originally a guest post on The Thoughtful Animal.] Everyone loves reading about the Siberian fox experiment because domestica...

Animals Do Dogs Inherently Understand Pointing Gestures? (The Other End of the Leash): Patricia McConnell weighs in on the ongoing researc...

Are clicks better markers than words? (The Other End of the Leash): Patricia McConnell gets nerdy about the mechanics of operant conditioni...

The Thoughtful Animal has been writing about domesticated foxes and has pointed out that they are commercially available. Dude! I want one ...

How not to greet a dog. This poster should put posted everywhere. Children should have to learn it with their multiplication tables. Blogg...

Working on my Master’s degree has made me yen for more letters after my name, so I’ve been doing some spare-time reading on subjects that mi...